IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.27716 of 2008 MANOJ KUMAR Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 18.7.2008 Heard. The petitioner is in custody in a complaint case on the allegation that after having received a cheque of the value of Rs.7.5 lacks for making payment to the labourers or other persons who were engaged in execution of the scheme, the petitioner did not pay the dues to the labourers and others and instead credited the cheque into his own bank account and thus misappropriated the money. The defence of the petitioner is that it is true that the petitioner was working under the complainant, but as a petty contractor and the complainant owed and outstanding dues of Rs.15,00,000/- to the petitioner which was not paid and that resulted in giving legal notices on a couple of occasions and ultimately an undertakings dated 8.4.2007(Annexure-4) by the complainant that he had already paid Rs.7.5 lacks and that he will pay up the remaining amounts subsequently. Regard being had to the above facts and circumstances and the documents in defence, let the above named petitioner be released from custody on furnishing bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri S.N.Ram, Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Begusarai in Complaint Case no.967C of 2007. B.Kr. ( Dharnidhar Jha, J. )