Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9998 of 2012 ====================================================== Ramji Prasad .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Junior Engineer is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The case of the informant is that the Executive Officer of Nagar Panchayat had invited some tender for construction of work without taking any approval of the Aam Sabha. The said Executive Officer has not been made an accused. It is alleged against the petitioner who is Junior Engineer that he did not make any measurement properly or made certain wrong entries in the measurement book. Considering the nature of irregularities other Junior Engineer Anant Lal Yadav has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No.38417 of 2011, let the petitioner, above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9998 of 2012 (2) dt.30-03-2012 2 / 2 2 named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Warisaliganj P.S. Case No. 48 of 2010 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Nawadah, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.