IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.RAMKUMAR MONDAY, THE 4TH JUNE 2007 / 14TH JYAISHTA 1929 Bail Appl..No. 3276 of 2007() ----------------------------- CRIME NO.347/2007 OF HILL PALACE POLICE STATION, THRIPPUNITHURA PETITIONER --------------------------- VARGHESE.C.T., S/O.C.A.THOMAS, AGED 42 YEARS, PHARMACIST AYURVEDA COLLEGE HOSPITAL, THRIPPUNITHURA, RESIDING AT CHRAYATHUMANJIYIL HOUSE, AMBADIMALA EAST, THIRUVANKULAM P.O., ERNAKULAM DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.P.M.JOSHI RESPONDENTS: ------------- 1. THE CIRCLE INSPECTOR OF POLICE, HILL PALACE POLICE STATION, THRIPPUNITHURA, ERNAKULAM DISTRICT. 2. THE SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE, HILL PALACE POLICE STATION, THRIPPUNITHURA. RESPONDENTS ARE REPRESENTED BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA. BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR P.N. SUKUMARAN THIS BAIL APPLICATION HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 04/06/2007, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: V. RAMKUMAR, J. ----------------------------------- Bail Application No. 3276/2007 ---------------------------------- Dated this the 4th day of June, 2007 O R D E R Petitioner who is the accused in Crime No.347/2007 of Hill Palace Police Station, Thrippunithura, for offences punishable under Sections 3(1) (xi) and (xii) of Scheduled Cast and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, seeks anticipatory bail. 2. The learned Public Prosecutor opposed the application. 3. Anticipatory bail cannot be granted in a case of this nature. But at the same time, I am inclined to permit the petitioner to surrender before the Investigating Officer for the purpose of interrogation and then to have his application for bail considered by the Magistrate having jurisdiction. Accordingly, the petitioner shall surrender before the investigating officer on any day between 11-6-2007 and 13- 6-2007 for the purpose of interrogation and recovery of incriminating material, if any. The petitioner shall thereafter be produced on the same day before the Magistrate who shall consider his application for regular bail preferably on the same date on which such application is filed, bearing in mind the decision reported in Shalu v. State of Kerala (2000 (3) KLT 452). This petition is disposed of as above. V.RAMKUMAR, JUDGE mrcs