Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35349 of 2012 ====================================================== Shambhu Dixit .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-09-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that petitioner being panchayat secretary did not hand over the charge even after being transferred. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner has handed over the current charge since he has received the current charge from his predecessor. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Shambhu Dixit, in the event of his 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35349 of 2012 (2) dt.18-09-2012 2 / 2 2 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah in connection with Lauria P.S. Case No. 179 of 2011. The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by learned Court below on verification of the fact that petitioner handed over the charge to the extent he received from his predecessor. Shageer/- (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.