Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20622 of 2012 ====================================================== Srimati Gyanti Devi @ Gyanti Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 13-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by one Haribansh Singh that irregularities have been committed in distribution of diesel subsidy by the petitioner being the Panchayat Mukhiya at the relevant time after using forged signature. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the complainant was the witness in the election case filed against the petitioner i.e. Election Case No. 04 of 2006 since the petitioner own the Panchayat Election and the accusation was not verified and the case has been lodged. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20622 of 2012 (2) dt.13-07-2012 2/2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad in connection with Salaiya P.S. Case No. 65 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.