Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42658 of 2012 ====================================================== Sushil Kumar S/O Sri Shiv Shankar Thakur Resident Of Village- Jagdar, P.S.- Birpur, District- Begusarai, Presently Panchayat Rojgar Sevak, Bhagatpur Gram Panchayat, P.S.- Ballia, District- Begusarai. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Rojgar Sewak is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of misappropriating the government money to the tune of Rs. 24,56,000/- in plantation work under the MANREGA Scheme. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that no accusation was levelled by the D.D.C., during enquiry but the Programme Officer, Balia, who is the informant of the present case, was on inimical terms with the Panchayat representatives and others since they lodged the complaint against the informant before the District Magistrate, D.D.C. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42658 of 2012 (2) dt.13-12-2012 2 / 2 2 as well as before the Director when an enquiry was set up by the D.D.C., against the informant hence as a retaliatory measure, the petitioner has been ropped in the present case when the informant himself after verifying the cash book and scheme register found that the said scheme has been implemented as per the guidelines given in the scheme and considering the same the Programme Officer has been granted bail by this Court Vide Cr. Misc. No. 34261 of 2012. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 Ballia P.S. Case No. 20 of 2012 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. Begusarai, 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.