IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.RAMKUMAR TUESDAY, THE 27TH FEBRUARY 2007 / 8TH PHALGUNA 1928 Bail Appl..No. 1143 of 2007() ----------------------------- CRMP.401/2007 of DISTRICT COURT, PALAKKAD .................... PETITIONER/ACCUSED: ------------------------------------ VENUGOPALAN, AGED 41, S/O.K.G. NAIR, MUTTATH HOUSE, KAMMANTHARA, WADAKKENCHERRY. BY ADV. SRI.S.M.PREM SMT.K.P.SANTHI RESPONDENTS: ------------- STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA, ERNAKULAM. BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR SRI. JAI GEORGE THIS BAIL APPLICATION HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 27/02/2007, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: V. RAMKUMAR, J. ----------------------------------- Bail Application No. 1143 of 2007 ---------------------------------- DATED: 26th February, 2007 O R D E R Petitioner who is the accused in Crime No. 17 of 2007 of Vadakkencherry Police Station for offences punishable under Sections 341 and 326 I.P.C., seeks anticipatory bail. 2. The learned Public Prosecutor opposed the application. 3. The case of the prosecution is that on 14-1-2007 at about 1.30 p.m. while the de facto complainant was returning after attending a marriage, he asked the name of the accused who did not relish the same and he thereupon inflicted injuries on the head, forehead and face of the de facto complainant using a granite stone resulting in the loss of two teeth. 4. Anticipatory bail cannot be granted in a case of this nature. There is no reason why the petitioner should not surrender before the investigating officer and then seek regular bail. Accordingly, the petitioner shall surrender before the Investigating Officer on any day between 5-3- 2007 and 7-3- B.A. No.1143 of 2007 -:2:- 2007 for the purpose of custodial interrogation. Thereafter, the petitioner shall be produced before the Magistrate concerned who shall release the petitioner on bail on appropriate conditions. This petition is disposed of as above. V.RAMKUMAR, JUDGE ani