A is a warehouse-keeper. Z going on journey entrusted his furniture to A, under a contract that it shall be returned on payment of a stipulated sum for warehouse room. Before coming Z from journey, A has sold furniture.

A has committed the Offence of "Criminal Breach of Trust". Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property, dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use that property, or dishonestly uses or disposes of that property in violation of any direction of law prescribing the mode in which such trust is to be discharged, or of any legal contract, express or implied, which he has made touching the discharge of such trust, or wilfully suffers any other person so to do, commits "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.