Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13922 of 2012 ====================================================== Binod Kumar Sinha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-04-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioner and Panchayat Secretary received Rs. 3,25,000/- for execution of the scheme under Narega but they submitted the account for the work done on the basis of measurement book of Rs. 2,37,163/- but no account for Rs. 1,02,837/- was given. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the accusation of the aforesaid amount is against the Panchayat secretary and the petitioner has deposited the amount of Rs. 87,837/- in the concerned office by draft No. 279117 in the Union Bank of India. 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 with a period of 12 weeks Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13922 of 2012 (2) dt.17-04-2012 2 / 2 2 from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in connection with Kashichak P.S. Case no. 22 of 2010, subject to the conditions laid down under section 438(2) Cr.P.C. M.Rahman/- (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.