IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE J.M.JAMES THURSDAY, THE 19TH OCTOBER 2006 / 27TH ASWINA 1928 Bail Appl..No. 6255 of 2006() ----------------------------- CMP.3306/2006 of J.M.F.C.-II,THAMARASSERY C.R. NO.13/2004 OF KUNNAMANGALAM EXCISE RANGE. .................... PETITIONER/ACCUSED ------------- KOTTI, AGE 65/04, W/O.CHATHAN, IRIMBIDAMKANDIYIL, NELESWARAM AMSOM, THECHIYAD DESOM. BY ADV. SRI.SUNNY MATHEW RESPONDENTS: COMPLAINANT ----------------- STATE OF KERALA, THROUGH THE EXCISE INSPECTOR, KUNNAMANGALAM EXCISE RANGE, REP. BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA, ERNAKULAM. BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR SRI.JAI GEORGE. THIS BAIL APPLICATION HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 19/10/2006, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: J.M. JAMES, J. ------------------------------- Bail Application No. 6255 of 2006 ------------------------------- Dated this the 19th October, 2006. O R D E R On 28.9.2006, the petitioner was arrested with two litres of illicit arrack, by the Kunnamangalam Excise Range officials, who registered C.R.No.13/2004 of that Excise Range, for the offence punishable under Section 8(1) of the Abkari Act. Petitioner remains in judicial custody thereafter. Hence, this application for bail. 2. Considering the duration of judicial detention, and completion of investigation, and also the submission of the prosecution that there is no other case registered against the petitioner, I allow this application, grant bail to the petitioner, and release her from jail, on she executing a bond for Rs.25,000/= (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand only) with two solvent sureties, each for the like sum, to the satisfaction of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-II, Thamarassery. J.M. JAMES, JUDGE nj.