Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40379 of 2012 ====================================================== Nawal Kishore & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the Headmasters of the Primary and Middle Schools are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that AC/DC bills have not been submitted by the petitioners. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the Block Education Officer, Haspura, submitted a report on 25.07.2011 that the AC/DC bills have been submitted by the petitioners and others. Though F.I.R. was registered on 28.05.2011. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners Nawal Kishore, Ran Vijay Kumar Singh, Ram Pukar Prasad Verma @ Ram Pumar Prasad Verma, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40379 of 2012 (2) dt.08-11-2012 2 / 2 2 Bibha, Motijhari Kumari, Bindeshwar Ram, Ashok Kumar Sinha, Ravi Kumar, Chandrawati Kumari, Anil Kumar, Rajendra Prasad, Srikant Prajapat @ Srikant Prajapati, Bibha Kumari, Ravi Shankar Trigunayat, Shyam Deo Ram, Nandeshwar Ram @ Nandeshwar Das, Prabha Kumari and Suryawanti Sinha @ Surwanti Sinha be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Haspura P.S. Case No. 74 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned S.D.J.M., Daudnagar, Aurangabad, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.