Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16756 of 2012 ====================================================== Ajay Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 01-11-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State Mr. J.N.Thakur. Petitioner being Panchayat Teacher is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioner along with one Brajesh Kumar withdrew Rs. 2,07,000/- for construction of the building of Kasturba Gandhi Residential Girls School, Salkhua but the money has been misappropriated. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that construction was done but the construction was not complete and in the midst of the construction the F.I.R. has been lodged. Petitioner undertakes to deposit Rs. 1,03,500/- before learned Court below which will be invested in some fixed Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16756 of 2012 (4) dt.01-11-2012 2 / 2 2 deposit scheme which will be the subject to the result of the case. On deposit of the aforesaid amount, let the petitioner namely Ajay Kumar, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsa in connection with Salakhua P.S. Case No. 109 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.