Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15823 of 2012 ====================================================== Pashupati Nath Sharma @ Pashupati Sharma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 01-05-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that scrap was being transported at the behest of the informant when the vehicle owner was Ramesh Kumar Gupta, driver and cleaner were Babloo Singh and Lal Babu Rai but the scrap was not reached to the consignee place and subsequently it was found that it was sold to the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no recovery from the petitioner and for the cause of action of 10.04.2008 the F.I.R. was lodged on 14.06.2008. Delayed lodging of the F.I.R. clouds the bona fide of the accusation, let the petitioner namely Pashupati Nath Sharma @ Pashupati Sharma, in the event of his arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15823 of 2012 (2) dt.01-05-2012 2 / 2 2 surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail 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, East Champaran at Motihari in connection with Chhatauni P.S. Case No. 74 of 2008. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 407

Statute Text:
Section 407 of the Indian Penal Code. Criminal breach of trust by a carrier, wharfinger, etc. Whoever, being entrusted with property as a carrier, wharfinger or warehouse-keeper, commits criminal breach of trust, in respect of such property, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.