Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8811 of 2012 ====================================================== Anil Jha @ Anil Kr. Jha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Revenue Karamchari is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that he did not hand over the charge of the documents relating the teachers employment, 2006 to the Panchayat Secretary as a result of which required information to the State Information Commission was not supplied. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that he has now handed over the charge of the entire documents since those documents were submitted before the appellate authority. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8811 of 2012 (2) dt.27-03-2012 2/2 thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lakhisarai in connection with Lakhisarai P.S. Case No. 455 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted provisionally by the learned court below and when the informant admits that entire documents have already been handed over by the petitioner then the bail bond of the petitioner will be finally accepted. 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.