Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7123 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Madhu Sudan Mahton S/O Asarfai Mahto Resident Of Village- Jai Lakh, P.S- Bakhari, District- Begusarai. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is a Panchayat Mukhiya is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of committing irregularity and purchased of the solar lights. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that solar lights were purchased in the year 2007. It is further submitted that the report of the Sub Divisional Office suggests that the irregularity was detected by way of not following the government rules but the solar lights were installed in the year 2007 when the FIR has been lodged in the year 2011. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7123 of 2012 (2) dt.12-03-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Begusarai in Bhakhari P.S.Case No.279 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2)of the Cr.P.C. B.Kr./- (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.