Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42566 of 2012 ====================================================== Somnath Mani Tripathi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-12-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . and Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. It is alleged against the petitioner that being Railway employee, on pretext of providing employment he received Rs. 2,00,000/- when Rs. 75,000/- were given through cheque and the rest was in cash, but neither employment was provided nor money was returned. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the matter has been settled between the complainant and the petitioner long back and recently warrant has been issued. Considering the aforesaid submissions, let the petitioner namely Somnath Mani Tripathi, in the event of his Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42566 of 2012 (2) dt.18-12-2012 2 / 2 2 arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail for six months on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Chapra, Saran in connection with Complaint Case No. 1429 of 2005, Trial No. 957 of 2010. The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by learned Court below, if the complainant admits before learned Court below that he has settled the issue with the petitioner. Shageer/- (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.