IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE M.N.KRISHNAN WEDNESDAY, THE 4TH MARCH 2009 / 13TH PHALGUNA 1930 Crl.MC.No. 871 of 2009() ------------------------ CRIME NO. 45/2006 OF CHADAYAMANGALAM EXCISE RANGE AND CP.106/2008 of JUDL.MAGISTRATE OF FIRST CLASS-II, KOTTARAKKARA .................... PETITIONER(S)/: ACCUSED ---------------------- MURALEEDHARAN PILLAI, S/O.GOPALAN NAIR, MUKESH BHAVAN, PARAMKODE MURI, ELAMADU VILLAGE, KOTTARAKKARA TALUK, KOLLAM DISTRICT. BY ADVS. SRI.PREMCHAND R.NAIR SRI.TOJAN J. VATHIKULAM RESPONDENT(S)/: COMPLAINANT -------------------------- STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY EXCISE INSPECTOR, CHADAYAMANGALAM EXCISE RANGE, REPRESENTED THROUGH PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR SRI. P.A. SALIM THIS CRIMINAL MISC. CASE HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 04/03/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: M.N. KRISHNAN, J ----------------------- CRL.M.C.No. 871 OF 2009 --------------------------------- Dated this the 4th day of March, 2009 O R D E R This is an application filed for a direction to the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-II, Kottarakara to consider the bail application in C.P. 106/2008 pending before the said court. The accused is alleged to have committed the offences under Section 8(1) &(2) of the Kerala Abkari Act. The accusation is that he was in possession of four litres of arrack. If the accused surrenders and moves an application for bail, I direct the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court -II, Kottarakkara to consider bail application on the date of surrender itself and dispose of it in accordance with law. M.N. KRISHNAN, JUDGE vkm