Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41448 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Chandra Shekhar Mandal @ Shekhar Mandal 2. Amar Mandal. 3. Maini Devi. 4. Deepak Sharma. 5. Niranjana Devi. 6. Naresh Mandal @ Naresh Prasad Mandal. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The application with regard to petitioner no.1 has already been disposed off. The petitioner nos. 2 to 6 are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3 (I) (X) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that petitioner no.1 realized Rs. 60,000/- for providing job to the informant as a teacher in the school on contract basis for two years when the informant could not get salary and thereafter the school was closed and when the informant went to ask for returning of the money, she was abused by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41448 of 2012 (3) dt.05-12-2012 2/2 the thrust of accusation is against petitioner no.1 who has been arrested when petitioner no.2 and 3 are son and wife of petitioner no.1 whereas petitioner no.4 is clerk, petitioner no.5 is a lady teacher in the said school and petitioner no.6 is the co-villager of petitioner no.1. It is further submitted that the accusation under SC/ST act is omnibus and general when it is not alleged to have committed in a public view and petitioner no.1 earlier lodged a Sanha against the informant. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner nos. 2 to 6 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 satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in connection with Pranpur P.S. Case No. 114 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.