Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16049 of 2012 ====================================================== Shashi Prakash .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 24-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act. It is alleged that the complainant supplied building materials worth Rs. 30 lakhs, out of which Rs. 7 lakhs were paid, but subsequently petitioner issued a cheque of Rs. 5 lakhs from his personal account which got bounced. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the payment was with regard to government building when no supply was made since the cheque was issued from the personal Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16049 of 2012 (3) dt.24-07-2012 2/2 account of the petitioner. In view of this Court, it is a case for consideration of regular bail by the learned court below if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Complaint Case No. 2673(C) of 2011 pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Patna. 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: 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.