Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13205 of 2012 ====================================================== Bikash Kumar Jha .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-04-2012 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] and 138 of N.I. Act. The accusation against the petitioner is that for payment of due amount of informant he gave a cheque of Rs. 3,30,000/- to the informant which subsequently got bounced. It is submitted that the informant was a petty contractor under the petitioner for which cheques were used to be given to the informant which has been misappropriated and the informant has also filed a Title Suit being No. 267 of 2010 and the same was referred to the Mediation Centre in which the informant has retracted from mediation. Considering the accusation arising out of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13205 of 2012 (2) dt.13-04-2012 2 / 2 2 contractual relationship between the parties when title suit is also pending, let the 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 Laheriasarai P.S. Case No. 533 of 2010 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. Darbhanga, 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: 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.