Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16330 of 2012 ====================================================== Arjun Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-05-2012 Petitioner being Branch Manager of Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 3(1)(X) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Accusation is of fraudulent withdrawal of Rs. 35,00,000/- from the bank account of the panchayat of the informant on the basis of false signature of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that money has been withdrawn in regular course and informant, in order to save his skin lodged the present case and Md. Yaqub who was operating the bank account has been granted anticipatory bail on deposit of Rs. 2,00,750/- vide Cr. Misc. No. 38230 of 2011. Petitioner is ready to deposit Rs. 2,25,000/- Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16330 of 2012 (2) dt.07-05-2012 2 / 2 2 before learned Court below which will be invested in some fixed deposit scheme which will be subject to the result of the case. On deposit of the aforesaid amount, let the petitioner namely Arjun Paswan, in the event of his arrest or surrender 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 S.D.J.M., Biraul at Benipur, Darbhanga in connection with Ghanshyampur P.S. Case No. 8 of 2011, corresponding to G.R. No. 44 of 2011. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted on giving undertaking through affidavit that petitioner will cooperate in the investigation, if the investigation is not complete. Let the aforesaid affidavit be transmitted to the concerned I.O. by learned Court below. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 458

Statute Text:
Section 458 of the Indian Penal Code. Lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night, after preparation made for causing hurt, etc. Whoever commits lurking house-trespass by night, or house-breaking by night, having made preparation for causing hurt to any person or for assaulting any person, or for wrongfully restraining any person, or for putting any person in fear of hurt, or of assault, or of wrongful restraint, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to fourteen years, and shall also be liable to fine.