Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8441 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Govind Das 2. Dwarika Prasad Gupta. 3. Md. Anwarul Haque @ Anwarul Haque. 4. Vimal Kumar Das. 5. Ram Bilash Mukhiya. 6. Ajay Kumar Sah @ Ajay Kumar Azad. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the PDS dealers are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the grains were supplied to the petitioners under Sampurn Gramin Rojgar Scheme between period 2002 to 2006 when misappropriation was made. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners challenge the demand notice through writ applications, as contained in Annexure-2, through which the interim protection was given on deposit of 20% of the claimed account. The petitioner undertakes to deposit the claimed amount which will be found actually due after the enquiry. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8441 of 2012 (2) dt.23-03-2012 2/ 2 Considering the same, let the above named petitioners 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnea in connection with Damdaha P.S. Case No. 103 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.