Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1207 of 2012 ====================================================== Indeshwar Das .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 2 16-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Secretary is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of defalcating Rs. 67,000/- of the Government scheme. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that though the petitioner has the vouches for the expenditure of the alleged amount but he is ready to deposit Rs. 67,000/-. Let the petitioner deposit Rs. 67,000/- before the learned court below within a period of two months which will be invested in some fix deposit scheme in connection with the present case which will be subject to the result of the present case. Considering the stand of the petitioner, let the 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 twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsha in connection with Bakhtiyarpur P.S. Case No. 145/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner will be provisionally accepted till the deposit of the aforesaid amount. Amrendra Kumar/- (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.