Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16896 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Islam Mansoori. 2. Safik Mian. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of making payment of Rs. 5,000/- to Panchayat Mukhiya and Rs. 2,5000/- to these petitioners for providing the benefit under Indira Awas Scheme. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that after 11/2 years of cause of action the accusation has been levelled against the petitioners due to village politics and there is no proof with regard to the payment. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16896 of 2012 (2) dt.10-05-2012 2/2 satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, East Champaran at Motihari in connection with Chiraiya P.S. Case No. 216 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.