IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.K.MOHANAN FRIDAY, THE 16TH APRIL 2010 / 26TH CHAITHRA 1932 Bail Appl..No. 2227 of 2010() ------------------------------------------ (CRIME NO.346/2010 OF NORTH PARAVUR POLICE STATION, ERNAKULAM DISTRICT) ........................................................ PETITIONER/2ND ACCUSED (IN CUSTODY): ----------------------------------------------------------------- JAYACHANDRAN,S/O.GOPI,AGED 37 YEARS, NIKATHIL HOUSE,PATTANAM KARA,VADAKKEKARA. BY ADV. SMT.R.SUDHA RESPONDENT(S): COMPLAINANT: --------------------------------------------------- STATE OF KERALA,REPRESENTED BY SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE,N.PARAVUR POLICE STATION, THROUGH THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR,HIGH COURT OF KERALA ERNAKULAM. BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR SRI. P.A.SALIM THIS BAIL APPLICATION HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 16/04/2010, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: Kss V.K.MOHANAN, J. ------------------------------- Bail Application No.2227 of 2010 ------------------------------- Dated this the 16th day of April, 2010. O R D E R This is an application for regular bail filed by the 2nd accused in Crime No.346/10 of North Paravur Police Station. 2. The prosecution case is that, some time in January 2010, the 1st accused one Shine committed theft of a gold chain weighing 3 sovereigns from a person with whom the 1st accused was engaged in unnatural sex and later the 1st accused with the help of the petitioner herein converted the stolen gold chain into a gold bar. According to the prosecution, while the police party was on a routine patrol duty on 25.2.2010 at about 12 noon, they arrested the petitioner as well as the 1st accused, who was found in a suspicious circumstance and effected recovery of the gold bar from the possession of the 1st accused. From the police records, it is further revealed that the accused are involved in the commission of similar offences by adopting the same modus operandi. 3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that, Bail Application No.2227 of 2010 2 he has no connection with the crime and the police arrested him, while he was talking with the 1st accused. Whereas, the learned Public Prosecutor stoutly opposed the bail application. 4. Having regard to the facts and circumstances involved in the case, especially the modus operandi adopted by the accused in the above crime and the antecedents of the petitioner, I am of the view that it is not a fit case to grant bail to the petitioner. In the result, there is no merit in the petition and accordingly the same is dismissed. V.K.MOHANAN, Judge. ami/