1. The petitioner filed a complaint before the Sub Divisional Magistrate of Monghyr Sadar. The case was numbered as 563-C of 1961. Opposite Party-Rani Bahadur Singh, Indu Bhushan Singh and Vikramaditya Singh were named as accused in that case. The Sub-Divisional Magistrate took cognizance and transferred the case to Mr. Ramdeo Singh, Judicial Magistrate, for trial. The accused persons surrendered on the 8th June 1962, and were ordered to be released on bail of Rs. 500.00 with two sureties of like amount each. The accused persons furnished bail bonds, and were released on bail on the same day.

2. The petitioner obtained certified copies of two of the bail bonds of the 21st September 1962. They showed that one of the sureties was Jamuna Singh who had also put his signature on them. On the 27th October 1962. the petitioner filed an application, alleging that the bail bonds had been, forged because Jamuna Singh had died about ten years earlier, and praying for action against opposite party Ram Bahadur Singh and Indu Bhushan Singh. He filed a similar petition on the 14th November 1962. On the 26th November, 1962, he obtained copies of the same bail bonds, and found that, in the