Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13055 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Jallaluddin @ Jallaluddin .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Mukhiya is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of taking Rs. 5,000/-for getting allotment under Indira Awas Scheme in favour of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that after 1½ years of cause of action the accusation has been levelled against the petitioner due to village politics. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, 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 Chiraiya P.S. Case No. 216 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13055 of 2012 (2) dt.12-04-2012 2 / 2 2 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned S.D.J.M., Sikrahana, East Champaran at Motihari, 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.