Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30251 of 2012 ====================================================== Raghavendra Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 6 16-10-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner being Branch Manager of the bank that he misappropriated Rs. 8,48,226/- by transferring the amount of the account holder either in his account or in the account of his relatives. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that out of the alleged amount Rs. 4,45,500/-has been realized from the petitioner when a departmental proceeding has also been initiated and the witnesses in paragraph No. 28 to 31 in the case diary have not supported the accusation. Let learned Court below consider regular bail of the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30251 of 2012 (6) dt.16-10-2012 2 / 2 2 eight weeks in connection with Salkhua P.S. Case No. 24 of 2012, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsa. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. Shageer/- (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.