Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6615 of 2012 ====================================================== Suraj Kumar Mahaldar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner being the Credit Officer of Financial Service that he collected Rs. 58, 935/- by the subscribers but did not deposit the said amount in the branch and misappropriated the aforesaid money. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the said money was deposited in the branch but no receiving was given. The petitioner is ready to deposit Rs. 58,935/- before the learned court below within a period of six months which will be invested in some fix deposit scheme in connection with present case which will be subject to the result of the case. Considering the stand of the petitioner, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6615 of 2012 (3) dt.05-04-2012 2/2 named petitioner 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kishanganj in connection with Thakurganj P.S. Case No. 174 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted provisionally by the learned court below till the deposit of the aforesaid amount. 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.