Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33544 of 2012 ====================================================== Ashok Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-09-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of misappropriating funds under various schemes in the panchayat. It is alleged against the petitioner that he worked as mediator with the husband of the panchayat Mukhiya for transfer of the scheme. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that inquiry report of the Sub-Divisional Officer is basis for filing F.I.R. where the accusation has been levelled against the panchayat Mukhiya and panchayat Secretary and direction was issued to lodge F.I.R. against them only. Considering the thrust of accusation against the Mukhiya and the panchayat Secretary, let the petitioner namely Ashok Yadav, in the event of his arrest or surrender Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33544 of 2012 (2) dt.05-09-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Jamui in connection with Khaira P.S. Case No. 16 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.