Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16687 of 2012 (2) dt.07-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16687 of 2012 ====================================================== Dinesh Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.16973 of 2012 ====================================================== Bashir Alam Khan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being teacher and headmaster are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of not up-dating the register and not providing food under the scheme Mid-day-meal. It is submitted that due to delayed supply of fire wood and the cook bieng on leave, the food was not cooked. It appears that it is more a case of irregularity than that of misappropriation. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16687 of 2012 (2) dt.07-05-2012 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, East Champaran, Motihari in connection with Pakeridayal P.S. Case No. 133 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 175

Statute Text:
Section 175 of the Indian Penal Code. Intentionally omitting to produce a document to a public servant by a person legally bound to produce deliver such document. Whoever, being legally bound to produce or deliver up any document to any public servant, as such, intentionally omits so to produce or deliver up the same, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both; or, if the document is to be produced or delivered up to a Court of Justice, with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.