Jeevan Raha Vs. the State of Bihar

in the high court of judicature at patna criminal miscellaneous no.36774 of 2011 jeevan raha, s/o-jeetendra bhushan raha versus the state of bihar ---------------------------------”13. 01.2012 heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned additional public prosecutor for the state. petitioner is in jail custody since 17.07.2011 in a case registered under sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120 b of the indian penal code. allegedly, one vijay kumar and neeva verma issued cheque of rupees six lacs in the name of the petitioner which was encashed by the petitioner through his account. later on, the aforesaid cheque was again produced before different branches of the concerned bank and then it was detected that the second cheque was a fake document. learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in course of investigation, the statements of vijay kumar and neeva verma have not been recorded and, as a matter of fact, they had issued cheque in question in favour of the petitioner who, later on, withdrew the amount. considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of chief judicial magistrate, patna in connection with kotwali p.s. case no. 446 of 2009 subject 2 to condition that one of the sureties must be local. shahzad ( hemant kumar srivastava, j.)