Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37935 of 2012 (2) dt.04-10-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37935 of 2012 ====================================================== Madhukar Prasad Yadav .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a Complaint Case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] and Section 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes(Prevention of Atrocities)Act . The accusation is of non-supply of grains by the petitioner since March, 2010 when the complainant protested she was abused by calling the caste name. It is submitted that the authorities have made no complaint against the petitioner and maliciously the present complaint has been lodged for the cause of action which arose in March, 2010. It is further submitted that offence under the provisions of Section 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes(Prevention of Atrocities)Act has not been committed in public view and the petitioner has no criminal Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37935 of 2012 (2) dt.04-10-2012 antecedent. 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 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 Sub Division Judicial Magistrate, Sikarahna, Motihari, East Champaran in Complaint Case No.727 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.