Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33606 of 2012 ====================================================== Karmveer Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.33803 of 2012 ====================================================== Ashok Kumar Vidyarthi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being Panchayat Mukhiyas are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that during enquiry, it was found that under MANREGA Scheme Nos. 10 of 2010-11 and 03 of 2011-12, Rs. 22,344/- and Rs. 2,304/- have been misappropriated. The petitioners undertake to deposit Rs.24,000/- each before the learned court below 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. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33606 of 2012 (2) dt.03-09-2012 2/2 On deposit of the aforesaid amout, 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 satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in connection with Hisua P.S. Case No. 78 of 2012, 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.