Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34776 of 2012 ====================================================== Chhotu Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 03-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of cheating the people of below poverty line by alluring them to provide bank loan of Rs.1,00,000/-. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner has not been named in the FIR. His name subsequently sprang up during investigation when the thrust of accusation is against the administrative officials and the Panchayat representatives. It appears that Ashok Paswan has been Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34776 of 2012 (2) dt.03-10-2012 2/2 granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 1050 of 2012. This Court sees no reason for learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Maranchi P.S. Case No. 73 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Barh. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.