IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.28648 of 2008 KUERDEO SINGH @ KUMARDEO SINGH Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3 29.09.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the informant and learned A.P.P. for the State. Petitioner is in custody in relation to Phulparas P.S.Case No. 34 of 2008 for offence under section 420, 384, 386 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code. Allegation in the F.I.R. is that the petitioner along with another partner of his namely, Sathan Ram Sangama, had cheated the informant by inducing him to supply food grains as well as some money to the labourers were was working on a road project in the area. Subsequently, it seems the partner Sathan Ram Sangama, suddenly disappeared without paying the dues to the informant. Petitioner seems to have been subsequently arrested in the matter. Petitioner is in custody since 17.03.2008, learned counsel for the petitioner submits and states before the Court that his client shall neither abscond nor evade law and would appear before the trial court on each and every date either through himself or through his counsel, if on a date he cannot be present in person for cogent reasons. He is also willing to cooperate in the trial which has been started in the matter. Learned counsel for the petitioner for the informant however has serious reservation with regard to the petitioner’s - 2 - cooperation in the trial once he is released on bail. Keeping the nature and the allegation as well as the period the petitioner has remained in custody, let the petitioner namely, Kuerdeo Singh @ Kumardeo Singh, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of sum of Rs. 20,000/- (twenty thousand only) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of A.C.J.M. Jhanjarpur, Madhubani, in connection with Phulparas P.S. Case No. 34 of 2008. One of the sureties will be executed by a responsible person of the area. It is further recorded that the petitioner shall appear in person on each and every date fixed by the trial court in this regard, if he in any manner, interferes with the justice, it will be opened for the trial court to take him in custody. Rajeev/ (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)