Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10458 of 2012 ====================================================== Indrasan Sah .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-04-2012 Petitioner being panchayat secretary is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of not handing over the charge in spite of being transferred. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that transfer order issued by the Block Development Officer was illegal, hence not handing over the charge did not constitute any offence. Considering the nature of accusation, let the petitioner namely Indrasan Sah, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10458 of 2012 (2) dt.03-04-2012 2 / 2 2 Magistrate, West Champaran in connection with Bagaha P.S. Case No. 458 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.