minal Appeal No 171 of 1959
Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated August 3 1959 of the Allahabad High Court in Criminal Revision No 1080 of 1959
0 P Rana and A 0
Ratanaparkhi for the appellant
G C Mathur and C P Lal for The dent
March 26
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by RAGHUBAR DAYAL J
One Ram Narain was  ordered by the High Court of Allahabad on June 9 1958 to furnish a personal bond for a lakh of rupees and three sureties two in the sum of Rs 40000 each and one in the sum of Rs 200001in respect of the case against him for having committed
criminal breach of trust with respect to the funds of the Pikaura Co operative Society He 57 was to furnish the personal bond and the sureties within three weeks from the date of the order
It was further ordered The applicant should furnish the personal bond and sureties as directed above within three weeks from today and during that period he will not be arrested
If he does not furnish the bonds and sureties within this period he will be liable to be re arrested and detained till the necessary bonds and sureties are furnished
 It may be mentioned that Ram Narain had previously furnished a personal bond and sureties in connection with the embezzlement alleged to have been committed by him and that the necessity for a fresh order for furnishing personal bond and sureties arose on account of the police submitting more than one charge sheet with respect to the amount embezzled and it was felt that the original security furnished might not be effective
On June 26 1958 Ram Narain executed a personal bond for Rs 100000 and offeredthe required sureties
Kashi stood surety for Rs 40000  Safir Hussain for Rs 40000 and Smt
Sona for Rs 20000 respectively
The surety bond by Safir Hussain was not duly verified as he was in hospital at that time but when it was put up to Safir Hussain for verification on July 12 1958 be refused to verify it
Prior to this on July 7 1958 Safir Hussain filed an application before the Magistrate praying that his surety bonds in connection with the embezzlement of Rs 40000 and Rs 80000 be cancelled
Ram Narain was present in Court that day
No particular order was passed on this application of Safir Hussain
On July 93 1958 an application on behalf of Ram Narain was filed stating that Bekaru s surety 58 be accepted in place of Safir Hussain s surety
Bekaru filed the surety
bond offering himself to stand surety for Re 40000 for Ram Narain s appearance in Court
He was identified by Sri Ahmad Husain Vakil who certified that Bekaru Singh possessed sufficient property to stand surety for Rs 40000 
The Magistrate ordered for the verification from the Tehail and on receipt of the report from the Tehsil accepted the bond on August 20 1958
The Tehsil report however indicated that the house mentioned in the surety bond and alleged to be worth Rim
60000 was estimated to be worth Rs 16075 
The police charge
sheet in the case appears to have reached the Court on August 20 1958 when summons for the appearance of Ram Narain was ordered to be issued for September 1 1958
The summons was not served
When Ram Narain did not appear on September 1 1958 September 9 and September 23 the Court on September 24 ordered action under sections 87 and 88 Cr
PC against him and the issue of notices to the sureties to produce him in Court
When he did not appear in Court on October 29 the Court forfeited the personal bond executed by Ram Narain and the bail bonds executed by the sureties and ordered issue of notice to the sureties to pay the penalty or show cause a to why the amount be not recovered from them
Bekaru objected to the forfeiture of his surety bond
On April 20 1959 the objection was disallowed and the learned judicial officer ordered that the amount of Rs 40000 be recovered from his movable
property through attachment and sale
Bekaru appealed but his appeal was dismissed by the learned Sessions Judge
His revision application to the High Court was also dismissed
He has preferred this appeal by special leave
The main contention for the appellant is that the learned Magistrate should pot have accepted 59 Bekaru Singh s surety bond without first taking action contemplated by sub sections 2 and 3 of section 502 Cr
PC Section 502 reads 1 All or any sureties for the attendance and appearance of a person released on bail may at any time apply to a Magistrate e to discharge the bond either wholly of so far as relates to the applicants
2 On such application being made the Magistrate shall issue his warrant of arrest directing that the person so released be brought before him
3  On the appearance of such person pursuant to the Warrant or on his voluntary surrender the Magistrate shall direct the bond to be discharged either wholly or so far as relates to the applicant and shall call upon such person to find other sufficient sureties and if he fails to do so may commit him to custody
 It is urged that the Magistrate had to issue a warrant for the arrest of Ram Narain when Safir Hussain had presented his application for the discharge of his surety bond and that when Ram Narain would have appeared before the Court in execution of that warrant the Magistrate had to first discharge Safir Hussain s surety bond and only then could have called upon Ram Narain to furnish other surety
The Magistrate took no such stop and therefore could not have legally accepted the surety bond offered by Bekaru on July 91958
We do not agree with this contention
These provisions Of section 502 are meant for the continuity of the surety bond on the basis of which an accused has been released on bail till such time that the accused is before the Court and for taking further action in case the accused desires to offer another security in place of the one who is to be discharged
They are not conditions precedent for the acceptance of 60 a fresh surety in place of the earlier one
In the circumstances of the present case there was no occasion to issue a warrant for the arrest of Ram Narain on Safir Hussain s applying for the discharge of his surety bond We do not Know in what circumstances no particular order was passed on July 7 1958 on the application of Safir Hussain
Ram Narain who was present in Court that day may have intimated to the Court that he would offer a fresh surety on July 9
Anyway a fresh surety was offered on that day viz July 9
Bekaru stood surety
An application on behalf of Ram Narain was presented praying for the acceptance
of Bekaru s surety bond in place of Safir Hussain section In accepting Bekaru s surety bond the Court committed no wrong
It was interested in getting a fresh surety for letting Ram Narain continue on bail
Bakaru offered the surety bond
His competence to stand surety for Rs 40000 was certified by a Vakil Safir Hussain s bond therefore stood cancelled and Bekaru s took its place
We do not therefore consider that there was any incompetency in the Magistrate s accepting Bekaru s surety bond in place of Safir Hussain section It is true that Bekaru s surety bond was formally accepted on August 20 1958 but that does not matter
Sub section 1 of section 499 Cr P C provides that before any person is released on bail bond must be executed by such person and bonds be also executed by sureties for the attendance of that person in Court
Sub section 3 of s499 is 3 For the purpose of determining whether the sureties are sufficient the Court way if it so thinks fit accept affidavits in proof of the facts contained therein relating to the sufficiency of the sureties or may make such further enquiry as it deems necessary
 When Bekaru furnished the surety bond he also filed 61 an affidavit stating therein that the house mentioned in the surety bond was worth over Rs 40000 Sri Ahmed Husain Vakil certified that Bekaru possessed sufficient property to stand surety for its
40000 In the circumstances the Magistrate could accept Bekaru s surety bond
Of course the Magistrate could make further enquiry as well and it was for the purpose of further enquiry that he ordered verification from the Tehsil
Bekaru s bond in our opinion was accepted on July 9 subject to further orders on the receipt of the Tehsil report
Further Ram Narain s continuing on bail is justified by the provisions of 8
500 Cr P C once Bekaru s surety bond had been filed
Its sub section
1 provides that as soon as the bond has been executed the person for whose appearance it has been executed shall be released
This contemplates that the accused is to be released on the execution of the bonds which should be accepted on their face value in the first instance
Section 501 Cr P C provides for the issue of a warrant of arrest of the person so released on bail if it is subsequently found that through mistake fraud or otherwise insufficient sureties bad been accepted or if they afterwards became insufficient
We are therefore of opinion that formal acceptance of Bekaru s surety bond on August 20 1958 by the Magistrate does not in any way affect Bekaru s liability on that bond from July 9 1958
Any way he was liable on that bond for the non appearance of Ram Narain on a date subsequent to August 20 1958
It may be mentioned that it was urged up to the appeal stage that the surety bond was accepted on the 20th of August 1958 after the Magistrate had known of the absconding of Ram Narain
The Courts found against this allegation as there was no evidence in support of it
Another point urged is that the surety bond executed by Bekaru Singh did not have on the other 62 side the personal bond executed by Ram Narain and that in the absence of a personal bond by Ram Narain the surety bond executed by Bekaru could not be legally accepted
Reliance is placed on the case reported as Brahma Nand vs Emperor 1 and a few other cases expressing the same view
These cases are distinguishable on facts
In Brahma Nand s case
1 the accused himself had not executed any bond and therefore it was held that the surety bonds could not be forfeited
In the present case Ram Narain executed bond on June 26 1958
Kasbi one of the sureties executed the surety bond printed at the back of the bond executed by Ram Narain
Ram Narain had already bond himself to pay Rs 100000 in case he failed to appear in Court when required
Other sureties bond themselves to pay the various amounts in case Ram Narain did not appear
Their surety bond are good by themselves
Bekaru s surety bond is there fore as effective and legal as Kashi s bond which is just on the back of Ram Narain s bond
It is not required by any provision of the Code of Criminal Procedure that all the sureties should execute the bond printed at the back of the form on which the accused execute the personal bond or that the accused must execute as many bonds in identical terms as there are surety bonds by individual sureties
The mere fact that Form No XLII Schedule V Criminal Procedure Code prints the contents of the two bonds one to be executed by the accused and the other by the surety together does not mean that both these bonds should be on the same sheet of paper
We are therefore of opinion that Bekaru s bond can be forfeited if Ram Narain does not comply with the terms of his bond executed on June 26 1958 and that Ram Narain had not to execute a 1 A 1
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63 bond afresh when Bekaru furnished fresh surety in place of Safir Hussain s surety bond
We therefore hold that the appellant s bond has been rightly forfeited on the non appearance of Ram Narain in Court
We therefore dismiss the appeal


Summary:
One R was granted bail on his furnishing a personal bond and three sureties which he did
On July 7 one of the sureties S applied for the discharge of his bond
On July 9 R made an application that the appellants surety bond be accepted in place of S and the same day the appellant filed his surety bond
The appellant also filed an affidavit that he had property enough to satisfy the bond and a vakil also certified to that effect
The bond was sent for verification to the Tehsil and after verification was formally accepted on August 20
Subsequently R absconded and the appellant s bond was forfeited
The appellant contended that the forfeiture was illegal and that his bond was not properly accepted as no warrant was issued for the arrest of R when S applied for the discharge of his bond as the bond of S was not formally discharged and as R had not executed a personal bond on the reverse of the form on which the appellant bad executed his bond
56 Held that the surety bond of the appellant had been
properly accepted and the forfeiture was legally made
The provisions of section 502 of the Code of Criminal procedure were meant for the continuity of the surety bond and for enabling the accused to offer another surety bonds they were not conditions precedent for the acceptance of a fresh surety in place of an earlier one
There was no occasion to issue a warrant for the arrest of R as he was present in Court on July 7 when S applied for the discharge of his bond and may have intimated to the Court that lie would offer fresh surety on July 9
The Court was interested in getting a fresh surety for letting R continue on bail and it did no wrong in accepting the appellant s surety bond which was offered
The bond of S stood cancelled and appellant s bond took its place
The bond of the appellant was really accepted on July 9 when the appellant filed the affidavit as required by section 499 3 of the Code and the Vakil also certified as to his solvancy
It was immaterial that the bond was formally accepted on August 20
Further it was not necessary that each surety should execute the surety bond on the reverse of the personal bond of the accused