IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.RAMKUMAR WEDNESDAY, THE 13TH FEBRUARY 2008 / 24TH MAGHA 1929 Crl.MC.No. 555 of 2008() ------------------------ L.P. NO. 2/2006 of SESSIONS COURT (FAST TRACK-ADHOC-II), KOZHIKODE .................... PETITIONER: ACCUSED ------------------- RANJITH KUMAR.T.K., S/O.KANNAN, THAZHTHADATHAM THAZHAKUNIYIL, P.O.VARIKOLY, NADAPURAM, KOZHIKODE DT. BY ADV. SRI.P.NARAYANAN RESPONDENTS: COMPLAINANT ---------------------------------- STATE OF KERALA, REP. BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA. BY ADV. SRI. M.S. BREEZE, PUBLIC PROSECUTOR THIS CRIMINAL MISC. CASE HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 13/02/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: V. RAMKUMAR, J. = = = = = = = = = = = = = Crl.M.C.No. 555 of 2008 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Dated this the 13th day of February, 2008 ORDER Petitioner who is the accused in Crime No.2/2003 of Nadapuram Excise Range for an offence punishable under Section 55 (a) of the Abkari Act and whose case was split up and transferred to the Long Pending Register as L.P.No. 2 of 2006 before the Sessions Court Fast Track-II, Kozhikode, seeks a direction to the Magistrate to consider his application for regular bail on the date of his surrender itself after recalling the non bailable warrants of arrest against him. 2. 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 trial court and seeks regular bail. 3. Accordingly this Criminal Miscellaneous Case 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 he does so, his bail application shall be considered and disposed of by the learned Magistrate, on merits, preferably on the same date on which the petition is filed after considering the explanation offered by the petitioner for his previous non-appearance. V. RAMKUMAR, JUDGE. rv Crl.M.C.No. 41 of 2008 2