Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41306 of 2012 ====================================================== Chandra Mohan Thakur & Ors .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the bank employees are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant opened an account in the Central Bank Employees Bachat and Sakh Swalambi Sahkari Samittee Limited, in which the petitioners were the employees but the informant deposited Rs. 19,000/- but on maturity it was found that money was not deposited when money was misappropriated by these petitioners. It is submitted that money has been returned to the informant. Let the learned court below consider regular bail of the petitioners Chandra Mohan Thakur, Ashok Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41306 of 2012 (2) dt.06-12-2012 2 / 2 2 Thakur, Ranjan Kumar Gupta @ Ranjan Kumar, Vijayanand Pathak and Molo Kamti @ Moli Kamti if they surrender within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Saharsa P.S. Case No. 67 of 2007 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M. Saharsa. It is expected that the regular bail application of the petitioners shall be disposed off preferably on the same day. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioners. U.K./- (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.