Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12402 of 2012 ====================================================== Shuka Urauv .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Executive Engineer is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of receiving Rs. 10,00,000/- under M.L.A. fund but the account for the same has not been given. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner was in-charge for certain time and was not responsible for giving the account for the same. The petitioner is ready to deposit 50% of the aforesaid amount i.e., Rs. 5,00,000/- before the learned court below within a period of six months which will be invested in some fix deposit scheme which will be subject to the result of the case. Considering the stand of the petitioner, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12402 of 2012 (2) dt.10-04-2012 2/2 arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sheikhpura in connection with Sheikhpura P.S. Case No. 279 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner will be provisionally accepted by the learned court below till the deposit the aforesaid amount within a period of six months. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 409

Statute Text:
Section 409 of the Indian Penal Code. Criminal breach of trust by public servant or by banker, merchant or agent, etc. Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property in his capacity of a public servant or in the way of his business as a banker, merchant, factor, broker, attorney or agent, commits criminal breach of trust in respect of that property, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.