IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.RAMKUMAR THURSDAY, THE 22ND JULY 2010 / 31ST ASHADHA 1932 Crl.MC.No. 2810 of 2010() ------------------------- ST.598/2006 of J.F.C.M COURT-IX, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM .................... PETITIONER(S): / ACCUSED --------------- M.SANTHA RAJ,BSNL,STAFF QUARTERS, A-24 PARUTHIPPARA,NALACHIRA,THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. BY ADV. SRI.M.R.SASITH SRI.M.R.SARIN PANICKER RESPONDENT(S): /STATE & COMPLAINANT --------------- 1. PNB HOUSING FINANCE LTD, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM BRANCH, CAPITAL TOWERS, STATUE,THIRUVANTHAPURAM,V.K.UNNIKRISHNAN, VICE PRESIDENT 2. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR,HIGH COURT OF KERALA ,ERNAKULAM. BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR MR.KAMMAPPU THIS CRIMINAL MISC. CASE HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 22/07/2010, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: V. RAMKUMAR, J. = = = = = = = = = Crl.M.C.No.2810 of 2010 = = = = = = = = = = = Dated: 22nd day of July, 2010 ORDER Petitioner, who is the accused in S.T.No.598/2006 on the file of the J.F.C.M Court-IX, Thiruvananthapuram for an offence punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument 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 J.F.C.M Court-IX, Thiruvananthapuram and seeks regular bail. Crl.M.C.No.2810 of 2010 2 Accordingly, this Crl.M.C. 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 filed notwithstanding the pendency of any non-bailable warrants against him. Dated this the 22nd day of July, 2010 V. RAMKUMAR, (JUDGE) dmb