IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.RAMKUMAR THURSDAY, THE 30TH NOVEMBER 2006 / 9TH AGRAHAYANA 1928 Bail Appl..No. 7053 of 2006() ----------------------------- .................... CRIME NO.98/03 OF KOIPURAM POLICE STATION PETITIONER: -------------- K.E.MATHEW, KANICHIKATTU, PURAMATTOM P.O., THIRUVALLA. BY ADV. SRI.C.S.SUNIL RESPONDENTS: ---------------- STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA, ERNAKULAM. BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR SHRI JAI GEORGE THIS BAIL APPLICATION HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 30/11/2006, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: V.RAMKUMAR, J. ------------------------------------- B.A.No.7053 OF 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------- DATED THIS THE 30th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2006 O R D E R Petitioner seeks anticipatory bail on the allegation that the Koipuram Police are out to arrest and harass the petitioner in connection with Crime No.98/03 involving a motor car. Petitioner claims himself to be the bona fide purchaser of a motor car from the accused in the case and mutation of the R.C.book is also stated to have been effected in the name of the petitioner. 2. Learned Public Prosecutor on instructions submitted that the Police are not able to successfully get the charge sheet registered before the C.J.M., Pathanamthitta as the subject matter of the offence, viz; the motor car could not be seized. It is for the said purpose that the petitioner was directed to produce the motor vehicle. But the petitioner has not complied with the request of the Police. Learned Public Prosecutor also submitted that if the petitioner produces the Ambassador car in question before the Investigating Officer on a specified date, after preparing a mahazar for the same it can be returned to the Page numbers petitioner on proper Kychit. It was the submission of the learned Public Prosecutor that there is no move at all to array the petitioner as an accused in the case. 3. If these are the facts, the apprehension of arrest and harassment entertained by the petitioner is unfounded. Therefore this petition is disposed of directing the petitioner to produce the motor car in question before the Investigating Officer on 5.12.2006 between 9 AM and 11 AM as agreed to by the petitioner's counsel. Upon production of the car, the Investigating Officer, after preparing the necessary mahazar, shall return the car to the petitioner on proper Kychit and undertaking. V.RAMKUMAR, JUDGE dsn