Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15270 of 2012 ====================================================== Sunita Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the Program Officer that from the house of the petitioner and Panchayat Bhawan various filled forms of the various schemes like Chief Minister Girl Marriage Scheme, NAREGA, vouchers, measurement book, Old Pension Scheme were recovered which suggested that the petitioner being the husband of the Panchayat Mukiya has misappropriated the money on the basis of forged job card. It is submitted by learned Sr. counsel for the petitioner that the accusation is only presumptive and as a retaliatory measure since the Panchayat Bhawan was constructed as per the sanctioned planned which was objected by the collector, Jehanabad when the order was issued for demolition of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15270 of 2012 (2) dt.26-04-2012 2/2 Panchayat Building when this petitioner came before this Court by filing C.W.J.C. No. 19089 of 2011 where the interim order has been passed, the present case has been lodged. Considering the fact that the accusation, in the background of earlier dispute when the interim order was passed, does not inspire confidence, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the 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, Jehanabad in connection with Makhdumpur P.S. Case No. 414 of 2011, 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.