IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.RAMKUMAR MONDAY, THE 18TH FEBRUARY 2008 / 29TH MAGHA 1929 Crl.MC.No. 708 of 2008() ------------------------ SC.349/2000 (LP 14/06) of ADDL.SESSIONS COURT,-I, MAVELIKKARA CRIME NO. 326/1998 of NOORANADU POLICE STATION .................... PETITIONER/6TH RESPONDENT: ------------------------------------ SREEKUMAR, RETNAJALIYIL VEEDU, CHERUMUKHA MURI, NOORANADU VILLAGE, MAVELIKARA TALUK, ALAPPUZHA DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.K.SASIKUMAR SRI.M.VIJESH KUMAR RESPONDENT/STATE: ------------------------ STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA, ERNAKULAM. BY ADV. SRI. M.S. BREEZE, PUBLIC PROSECUTOR THIS CRIMINAL MISC. CASE HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 18/02/2008,THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: V. RAMKUMAR, J. = = = = = = = = = = = = = Crl.M.C.No. 708 of 2008 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Dated this the 18th day of February, 2008 ORDER Petitioners who is the 6th accused in Crime No. 326 of 1998 of Nooranadu Police Station for offences punishable under Sections 143, 147, 148, 324, 326 and 307 r/w Section 149 IPC and whose case was split up and transferred to the Long Pending Register as L.P.No.14 of 2006 before the Additional Sessions Court-I, Mavelikkara seeks a direction to the Sessions Judge to consider his application for regular bail on the date of his surrender itself after recalling the non bailable warrants of arrest against him. 2. The circumstances under which those non bailable warrants of arrest came to be issued against the petitioner are not discernible to this Court. It is only proper that the petitioner surrenders before the trial court and seeks regular bail. 3. Accordingly this Criminal Miscellaneous Case is disposed of permitting the petitioner to surrender before the learned Judge and file an application for regular bail within a period of two weeks from today. In case he does so, his bail application shall be considered and disposed of by the learned Judge, on merits, preferably on the same date on which the petition is filed after considering the explanation offered by the petitioner for his previous non-appearance. The petitioner may also plead for a discharge on the ground that the co-accused in the case have been acquitted after trial. V. RAMKUMAR, JUDGE. rv