IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.RAMKUMAR THURSDAY, THE 6TH JANUARY 2011 / 16TH POUSHA 1932 Bail Appl..No. 121 of 2011() ---------------------------- CRIMINAL CASE NO. 590/10 OF ADDL. CHIEF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE COURT, MORBI DISTRICT, RAJKOT, GUJARAT STATE .................... PETITIONER / APPLICANT : ----------------------------------------- D.MURALEEDHARAN, S/O.DAMODHARAN, AGED 52 YEARS, METALIC QUIPMENTS, USMANIYA COMPLEX, CONVENT ROAD, KOLLAM. BY ADV. SRI. JAMES ABRAHAM (VILAYAKATTU) RESPONDENT / COMPLAINANT: ---------------------------------------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA ERNAKULAM. 2. THE SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE EAST POLICE STATION, KOLLAM. R1 & R2 BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR SRI. C.S. HRITHWIK THIS BAIL APPLICATION HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 06/01/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: Mn V. RAMKUMAR, J. ------------------------------- Bail Application No.121 of 2011 ------------------------------- DATE: 06.01.2011 O R D E R Petitioner, who is the accused in C.C. No.590/2010 on the file of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Morbi District, Rajkot, Gujarat State for an offence punishable under Sec.138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, seeks anticipatory bail. 2. Eventhough with regard to a case pending before a court located beyond the territorial limits of the State of Kerala, this Court has no jurisdiction to grant anticipatory bail unless the petitioner is sought to be arrested within the limits of State of Kerala, in view of the decision Madhusoodan v. Superintendent of Police. (1992(2) KLT 83), appropriate orders can be passed to the police charged with the duty of executing the arrest warrant to grant bail to the petitioner and to ensure the presence of the petitioner before the court concerned located outside Kerala. The petitioner is accordingly directed to surrender before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rajkot and execute a bond for `15,000/- (Rupees fifteen thousand only) with two solvent sureties each for the like amount to the satisfaction of the Bail Application No.121 of 2010 -:2:- Officer concerned in the event of his arrest by the Kollam East Police Police pursuant to the warrant issued by the trial court on his undertaking that he shall surrender before the trial court on or before 7.03.2011. Dated this the 6h day of January, 2011. V.RAMKUMAR, JUDGE sj