CHAPTER XXXI GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO BONDS 294. Deposit instead of Bond. When any person is required by any Court or Magistrates or officer in charge of police station to execute a bond with or without sureties, such Court or Magistrate or officer may except in the case of bonds to be executed under Chapter VII, permit him to deposit a sum of money to such amount as the Court or Magistrate or officer may think fit in lieu of executing such bond. 295. Bond required from a Minor. When the person required to execute a bond is a minor, a bond executed by a surety or sureties only may be accepted. 296. Amount of bond not to be excessive. Sufficient sureties may be Required when those first taken are insufficient. (1) (2) The amount of every bond shall be fixed with due regard to the circumstances of the case and shall not be excessive. If, through mistake, fraud or otherwise, insufficient sureties have been accepted or if the sureties afterwards become insufficient, the Court or a Magistrate may issue a warrant for the arrest of the person on whose behalf the sureties executed the bond and, when such person appears, the Court or Magistrate may order him to find sufficient sureties and on his failing to do so may make such order as in the circumstances is just and proper. NOTE:- If a person required by a Magistrate to find sufficient sureties under this section fails to do so, the proper order for the Magistrate to make will ordinarily be:(a) in the case of an offender released on probation under Section 24, an order requiring him to appear on a date to be stated therein before the appropriate Court and receive sentence; (b) in the case of a person ordered to give security for good behaviour under Section 80 or Section 86, an order committing him to prison for the remainder of the period for which he was originally ordered to give security or until he finds sufficient sureties; (c) in the case of a person accused of an offence and released, on bail under Section 52 or Chapter. XXX, an order committing him to prison until he is brought to trial or discharged. 101