Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14522 of 2012 ====================================================== Mukesh Kumar .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner has filed this anticipatory bail application in connection with a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] and 138 of N. I. Act. The accusation is of taking money Rs. 1,50,000/- from the complainant as loan and subsequently a cheque of Rs. 1,30,000/- was issued which got bounced. Anticipatory bail was granted to the petitioner by the then learned court below on 06.09.2007 vide A.B.P. No. 5500 of 2007 on his undertaking to deposit Rs. 25,000/- in five equal monthly installments but the petitioner could not furnish bail bond since he was working outside the State. This Court is not inclined to grant Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14522 of 2012 (2) dt.20-04-2012 2 / 2 2 anticipatory bail to the petitioner but it is a fit case for grant of regular bail if the petitioner agrees to deposit Rs. 25,000/- before the learned court below. On deposit of the aforesaid amount, learned court below may consider the privilege of regular bail if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Complaint Case No. 2568(C) of 2006 pending in the court of the learned J.M., Patna. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.