Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16916 of 2012 (3) dt.05-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16916 of 2012 ====================================================== Mahendra Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being retired headmaster is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of misappropriating the money by not supplying the measurement book. It is submitted that the petitioner retired in January, 2010 when he filed a writ application being C.W.J.C. No. 22334 of 2011 for direction to the authorities to make payment of retiral dues since no criminal or departmental proceeding was pending against him. The said writ application was disposed of on 15.12.2011, thereafter the present case has been instituted on 10.1.2012. 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16916 of 2012 (3) dt.05-07-2012 weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhepura in connection with Alam Nagar P.S. Case No. 5 of 2012 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.