IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.S.GOPINATHAN TUESDAY, THE 19TH MAY 2009 / 29TH VAISAKHA 1931 Bail Appl..No. 2652 of 2009(B) ------------------------------------------ (CRIME NO. 377/2009 OF KONNI POLICE STATION) ............. PETITIONER/ ACCUSED: ----------------------------------- GOPALAKRISHNAN @ SISUPALAN, S/O.NARAYANAN, KOLAPPARA, V.KOTTAYAM MURI, PRAMADAM VILLAGE, KOZHENCHERRY TALUK, PATHANAMTHITTA DISTRICT. BY ADV. MR.C.B.SREEKUMAR. RESPONDENTS: ------------------------ 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA. 2. SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE, KONNI POLICE STATION. R1 & R2 BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR SMT. K. MEERA. THIS BAIL APPLICATION HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 19/05/2009,THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: prv. P.S.GOPINATHAN, J. ====================================== B.A.No.2652 of 2009 ====================================== Dated this the 19th day of May 2009 ORDER The petitioner is the accused in Crime No.377 of 2009 of Konni Police Station for the offence under Section 55(a)(i) of the Abkari Act. On 3.5.2009, the petitioner was found in possession of 1.875 litres of Indian Made Foreign Liquor. The petitioner was apprehended and produced before the Judicial First Class Magistrate II, Pathanamthitta. His application for bail was dismissed and remanded to judicial custody. Now this petition. 2. Today when the petition came up for hearing, the learned Public Prosecutor submitted that bail may be granted on conditions. 3. In the result, this petition is allowed and it is ordered that the petitioner shall be released on bail on executing a bond for Rs.30,000/- (Rupees Thirty thousand only) with two solvent sureties each for the like sum to the satisfaction of the Judicial First Class Magistrate II, Pathanamthitta on the following conditions:- i) The petitioner shall report before the investigating B.A.No.2652 of 2009 2 officer on every Tuesday at 10 a.m. ii) The petitioner shall not directly or indirectly make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer. P.S.GOPINATHAN, Judge css/