Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.21127 of 2012 ====================================================== Satyendra Kumar Ranjan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 03-07-2012 Petitioner being in-charge, Headmaster of the School is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . One Narayan Yadav, President of the school and School Shiksha Sammittee lodged a case against the petitioner for mis-appropriation of fund with regard to mid-day-meal and with regard to development schemes of the school. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that since petitioner failed to oblige the President of School Shiksha Sammittee, hence he lodged the complaint on the basis of complain made by such persons who, subsequently denied to have made any such complain and on the basis of complaint of the President of School Shiksha Sammittee, the administration, without conducting any enquiry directed for lodging of F.I.R. when no specific accusation with regard to Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21127 of 2012 (3) dt.03-07-2012 2 / 2 2 alleged misappropriation of fund has been made. Considering the aforesaid submissions, let the petitioner namely Satyendra Kumar Ranjan, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsa in connection with Simri Bakhtiyarpur P.S. Case No. 28 of 2012. 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.