Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20259 of 2012 (2) dt.22-06-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20259 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Vidya Devi, 2. Satish Kumar alias Satish Kmar Pandey, 3. Dilip Kumar alias Dilip Kumar Paswan 4. Ranjeet Kumar, 5. Sheweta Kumari alias Sheweta Kumar 6. Sukhdeo Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 22-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being Incharge Headmasters of Primary and Middle Schools are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that they failed to submit AC DC bill of the amount allotted under different heads. It is submitted that under general direction, FIR has been lodged without verifying the fact that most of the petitioners prior to lodging of the FIR, have submitted the bills and others have been granted anticipatory bail. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20259 of 2012 (2) dt.22-06-2012 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, Daudnagar, Aurangabad in connection with Uphara P.S. Case No. 18 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.