Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39459 of 2012 ====================================================== Kamesh Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of misappropriating the money with regard to diesel subsidy. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that when the accusation was levelled, enquiry was conducted but since the petitioner failed to identify the beneficiaries of the diesel subsidy, without verifying the distributor register, the enquiry report was submitted by the In-charge Officer, District Revenue vide letter No. 529 dated 12.05.2012 which is the basis of the FIR. Considering the mechanical enquiry report which is the basis of the FIR, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39459 of 2012 (2) dt.16-10-2012 2/2 learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad in connection with Pauthu P.S. Case No. 25 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, 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.