Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33771 of 2012 ====================================================== Yogendra Paswan .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Secretary is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of misappropriating scholarship money to the tune of Rs. 90229/-. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner was not named in the F.I.R.and he was transferred from Ajijpur Chande Panchayat where misappropriation was made on 31.10.2008 when money was withdrawn in 2009. It is further submitted that F.I.R. named Nawal Kishore Gunjan other Panchayat Secretary has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 46486 of 2009. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33771 of 2012 (2) dt.03-09-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Patepur P.S. Case No. 100 of 2009 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Vaishali at Hajipur, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. 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.