Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12712 of 2012 (3) dt.15-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12712 of 2012 ====================================================== Raj Kumar Ram @ Raj Kumar .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 15-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that he failed to refund the due amount of Rs.4,28,560.60 with regard to grain supplied to the petitioner during the period 2001-02 and 2004-05 under the scheme of Sampurna Gramin Rojgar Yojana. It is submitted that the petitioner challenged the demand notice in a writ proceeding before this Court when the authorities were directed to consider the show cause of the petitioner after giving due opportunity on deposit of 20% of the demand. It is further submitted that the petitioner has already deposited 20% of the demanded money and show cause of the petitioner has still not been disposed of. Considering the aforesaid facts and submissions, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12712 of 2012 (3) dt.15-05-2012 above named petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of his 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sasaram in Sasaram (Tilauthu) P.S.case No.714 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.