Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19125 of 2012 ====================================================== Arun Kumar S/O Late Dharm Nath Prasad R/O Mohalla - Mohan Nagar, P.S. Chapra Town, Distt. - Saran .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER 2 13-06-2012 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the parties. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Bheldi P.S. Case No. 19 of 2012 for offence punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 47(A) of the Excise Act. Taking into consideration the submission of the learned counsel that the petitioner has a clean antecedent and that not only the drivers of the pick up vans from where the alleged consignment of liquor was seized, were granted bail by a Bench of this Court in Cr. Misc. No. 20975 of 2012 vide order dated 07.06.2012 but also the owners of the pick up vans were granted bail vide order dated 06.04.2012 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 14510 of 2012 and that name of the petitioner has transpired on the basis of the statement made by the drivers as being the owner of the Beer Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19125 of 2012 (2) dt.13-06-2012 2 Bar and to whom the said consignment was to be delivered, let the petitioner named above in the event of his arrest or surrender within four weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10, 000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chapra, Saran, in Bheldi P.S. Case No. 19 of 2012, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Ravi/- (Jyoti Saran, 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.