IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.RAMKUMAR TUESDAY, THE 5TH FEBRUARY 2008 / 16TH MAGHA 1929 Crl.MC.No. 476 of 2008() ------------------------ ST.2025/2006 of JUDL. MAGISTRATE OF FIRST CLASS COURT-I, THRISSUR .................... PETITIONER: ACCUSED ------------------------- SUNIL AUGUSTINE, S/O.AUGUSTINE, 12/582, PARAKA HOUSE, ANGAMALY P.O., FERONA CHURCH ROAD, ALUVA. BY ADV. SRI.E.C.POULOSE SMT.BOBBY RAPHEAL.C RESPONDENTS: COMPLAINANT AND STATE ----------------------------------------------- 1. MANAPPURAM GENERAL FINANCE & LEASING LTD., MANAPPURAM HOUSE, VALAPPAD P.O., THRISSUR REP. BY ASST. MANAGER (LEGAL) MRS.SHINY JOSEPH. 2. STATE OF KERALA, REP. BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA, ERNAKULAM. BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, SRI.K.S. SIVAKUMAR. THIS CRIMINAL MISC. CASE HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 05/02/2008, HE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: V. RAMKUMAR, J. ------------------------------- Crl.M.C. No. 476 OF 2008 ----------------------------------- Dated this the 5th day of February, 2008 O R D E R Petitioner, who is the accused in S.T.No. 2025 of 2006 on the file of the J.F.C.M I,Thrissur for an offence punishable under Section 138 of NI Act, seeks a direction to the said Magistrate to release the petitioner on bail on the date of his surrender itself. 2. Admittedly non bailable warrants of arrest are pending against the petitioner. 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 learned Magistrate and seeks regular bail. Accordingly, this Criminal Miscellaneous Case is disposed of permitting the petitioner to surrender before the learned Magistrate and file an application for regular bail within a period of two weeks from today. In case the petitioner complies with the above condition, his bail application shall be considered and disposed of on merits preferably on the same date on which it is Crl.MC No 476 of 2008. 2 filed notwithstanding the pendency of non bailable warrants, if any, against him. V. RAMKUMAR, JUDGE btt Crl.MC No 476 of 2008. 3