IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE R.BASANT MONDAY, THE 22ND SEPTEMBER 2008 / 31ST BHADRA 1930 Crl.MC.No. 3536 of 2008() ------------------------- CC.978/2007 of JUDL. MAGISTRATE OF FIRST CLASS, KASARAGOD CRIME NO.535/2007 OF KASARAGOD POLICE STATION .................... PETITIONER: ACCUSED ------------------- B.M. MOHAMMED DAVOOD, S/O. BEERAN, DAVOOD MANIZL, OLAYADUKKA, KASARAGOD. BY ADV. SRI.T.B.SHAJIMON SMT.GOVINDU P.RENUKADEVI RESPONDENTS: COMPLAINANT ------------------------ STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY INSPECTOR OF POLICE, KASARAGOD POLICE STATION, REP. BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, ERNAKULAM. BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR SRI.GIKKU JACOB THIS CRIMINAL MISC. CASE HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 22/09/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: R.BASANT, J ------------------------------------ Crl.M.C. No.3536 of 2008 ------------------------------------- Dated this the 22nd day of September, 2008 ORDER Petitioner, who apprehends arrest as the absconding accused in a prosecution under Section 498 A I.P.C, has filed this application for issue of direction under Section 482 Cr.P.C to the learned Magistrate to follow the directions in Alice George v. The Deputy Superintendent of Police [2003(1) KLT 339] and dispose of his application for bail on the date of surrender itself. 2. I am not satisfied that any specific directions deserve to be issued. Sufficient general directions have already been issued in Alice George v. The Deputy Superintendent of Police [2003(1) KLT 339]. I do not perceive any necessarity to issue directions in all subsequent petitions to the subordinate Magistrates to follow the dictum in Alice George v. The Deputy Superintendent of Police [2003(1) KLT 339]. I have no reason to assume that the directions therein shall not be Crl.M.C. No.3536 of 2008 2 followed. If there is no compliance, the petitioner can raise complaint before the superior courts. 3. This Crl.M.C is, in these circumstances, dismissed, but with the above observations. 4. Hand over a copy of this order to the learned counsel for the petitioner for production before the court below. (R.BASANT, JUDGE) rtr/-