IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.RAMKUMAR FRIDAY, THE 15TH DECEMBER 2006 / 24TH AGRAHAYANA 1928 Bail Appl..No. 7529 of 2006() ----------------------------- CP.58/2006 of J.M.F.C.-I,THRISSUR Crime No.281/2006 of Viyyur Police Station .................... : APPLICANT/ACCUSED NO.5 --------------------------------------- PRADEEP, S/O.SUBRAMANIAN, NEDUMVEETTIL HOUSE, PULLAZHY, PUDURKARA. BY ADV. SRI.P.VIJAYA BHANU SRI.PRASUN.S RESPONDENT: COMPLAINANT ------------------------ STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA, ERNAKULAM, REPRESENTING THE C.I. OF VIYYOOR POLICE STATION. BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR SHRI. P.N. SUKUMARAN THIS BAIL APPLICATION HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 15/12/2006, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: V.Ramkumar, J. ================= B.A.No.7529 of 2006 ================= Dated this the 15th day of December, 2006. ORDER Petitioner who is accused No.5 in Crime No.281 of 2006 of Viyyur Police Station for offences punishable under Sections 143, 147,148, 302 and 201 read with Section 149 I.P.C. seeks his enlargement on bail. 2. The learned Public Prosecutor opposed the application. 3. Even though this is a case in which an 18 year old Polytechnic student by name Jindo was abducted by a gang consisting of five persons including the petitioner herein and kept under wrongful confinement for the purpose of claiming ransom from his father and on the boy attempting to escape from the unfinished house where he was restrained, the boy was smothered and subsequently drowned to death by immersing him in a thodu after tying a rope around his neck and thereafter his dismembered body parts were buried at several places, considering the role attributed to the petitioner herein, the absence of any criminal antecedents for the petitioner, the duration of his judicial custody from 8.8.2006 onwards and other aspects of the matter, I am BA 7529/06 -: 2 :- inclined to grant bail to the petitioner, but only from a future date. 4. Accordingly, the petitioner is directed to be released on bail with effect from 20.12.2006 on his executing a bond for Rs.10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand only) with two solvent sureties each for the like amount to the satisfaction of the J.F.C.M.-I, Thrissur and subject to the following conditions:- 1. The petitioner shall report before the Investigating Officer between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. on all Wednesdays. 2. The petitioner shall not influence or intimidate the prosecution witnesses nor shall he attempt to tamper with the evidence for the prosecution. 3. The petitioner shall not commit any offence while on bail. If the petitioner commits breach of any of the above conditions, the bail granted to him shall be liable to be cancelled. This application is allowed as above. V.Ramkumar, Judge. ess 15/12