Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13630 of 2012 ====================================================== Mithilesh Sharma & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.14648 of 2012 ====================================================== Ajay Kumar & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 11-05-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. J.N. Thakur, learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioners being the teachers of the school are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of non-submission of accounts with regard to funds allocated. It is submitted that subsequently, the D.E.O., Aurangabad, informed the officer-in-charge vide letter dated 23.08.2011 that the bills have been submitted by petitioners. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, Mithilesh Sharma, Shanti Kumari, Brahma Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13630 of 2012 (3) dt.11-05-2012 2 / 2 2 Deo Singh, Shashi Kumar, Baij Nath Singh, Ajay Kumar and Radhe Krishna Prasad, 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 Obra P.S. Case No.82 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 C.J.M. 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.