IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.18279 of 2011 Praveen Kumar, Son of Umesh Kumar Pandey of Ashiana Nagar N.T.P.C. Phase Main P.S. Rajeev Nagar, District Patna. ----- Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar. ------ Opposite Party ----------- 4 9.11.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the counsel appearing on behalf of the informant. This Court by order dated 31.5.2011 had granted provisional bail to the petitioner so that the matter could be settled between the parties. The provisional bail was extended till 19th of October, 2011. For one reason or the other, the parties could not settle the issues. This Court had ordered that if the settlement is not made, the petitioner should surrender by 19.10.2011. Once there was failure of settling the matter between the parties, the petitioner filed an Interlocutory Application numbered as I.A. No. 2160 of 2011 on 14.10.2011 praying for extension of time. The Interlocutory Application could not be placed till today as such, the time was not extended. This is a case in which there is an allegation that the petitioner had issued four cheques of sum of Rs. 15 lacks which bounced. 2 This resulted in a case being filed under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument Act as well as Sections 420 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code as the petitioner had failed to honour the agreement to pay a certain amount of money in exchange of property which he proposed to buy from the informant. For the offences aforesaid, the petitioner has remained in custody for 1½ months. I accordingly, direct that the petitioner Praveen Kumar should surrender by 30.11.2011. On his surrender the Court below will release him on bail on 2.12.2011 in connection with Patna City Chowk P.S. Case No. 04 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of rupees ten thousand with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna City. Sanjay (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)