Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.21767 of 2012 ====================================================== Shiv Shankar Sundaram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.18483 of 2012 ====================================================== Radheshyam Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the Assistant Engineer and Junior Engineer are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of misappropriating the money under MANREGA and other schemes of the Gram Panchayat. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners gave the technical sanction and the measurement could not be done since the work was not complete and there was water logging at the place of execution of the scheme. It appears that the investigation is still pending. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21767 of 2012 (3) dt.05-07-2012 2/2 Considering the claim of the petitioners that they are not the executing agent, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail till the conclusion of the investigation, 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Bachhwara P.S. Case No. 22 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 406

Statute Text:
Section 406 of the Indian Penal Code. Criminal breach of trust. Whoever commits criminal breach of trust shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.