IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.2882 of 2009 UMA SHANKAR MANDAL @ UMESH SHANKAR MANDAL, Son of Sri Anandi Mandal, resident of village-Katariya, P.S.Muffasil, District- Munger. Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 22.1.2009 Heard Sri Rana Pratap Singh, senior counsel for the petitioner and the learned A.P.P. for the State. The above named petitioner, a Halaka Karamchari, is in custody under the allegation that he made a false report that the persons claiming issuance of Parcha in their favour under the Bihar Privileged Persons Homestead Tenancy Act were land-holders and thus caused the fraudulent issuance of the Parcha. The earlier prayer for bail of the petitioner was dismissed by Annexure-1 by me holding that the action of the petitioner could be comprehended when one could consider that it was the instrument which could have divested a land holder of his legal possession and proprietorship. The court is still holds its opinion expressed earlier, but considering that the petitioner is a government servant, who is in custody since September, 2008 and the litigation has to go on further, directs the - 2 - release of the above named petitioner on bail on furnishing bond of Rs.20,000/-(twenty thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri Satyendra Pandey, Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Munger in Complaint Case No.829C of 2006, subject to the following conditions:- (1) That one of the surety must be a government servant. (2) That the petitioner shall physically present on all dates on which he could be required by the trial court to remain physically present for any legal formalities. (3) That if the petitioner is found absent on such dates, the court could assume that this order had not been passed and takes steps for committing the petitioner into custody. B.Kr. ( Dharnidhar Jha, J. )