Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9540 of 2012 ====================================================== Anil Kumar Ray .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 29-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] and Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. The accusation is that the petitioner received Rs. 5,02,000/- for transferring the land in favour of the complainant but subsequently the land was not transferred when the petitioner issue a cheque of Rs. 2,86,000/- which got bounced. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner lodged a Sanha on 29.01.2007 with regard to theft of the bag containing the alleged cheque. The Sanha also reflects the details of the cheque thereafter the present FIR has been lodged. It is further submitted that there no agreement with regard to the payment nor the petitioner has been paid any amount through cheque. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9540 of 2012 (2) dt.29-03-2012 2/2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of 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 Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Complaint Case No. 2348 of 2008, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 406

Statute Text:
Section 406 of the Indian Penal Code. Criminal breach of trust. Whoever commits criminal breach of trust shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.