IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.RAMKUMAR WEDNESDAY, THE 3RD JANUARY 2007 / 13TH POUSHA, 1928 Bail Appl..No. 7532 of 2006() ----------------------------- AGAINST THE ORDER DATED 08/12/2006 IN CRMP.3154/2006 & 3166/06 of SESSIONS COURT, KASARAGOD CRIME NO.288/06 OF KUMBLA POLICE STATION. .................... : PETITIONER/2ND ACCUSED ---------------------------------------- VENKATRAMANA BHAT P., S/O. SANKARA BHAT, RETIRED HEADMASTER, CHEVAR HOUSE, KUDALMARKALA, KASARAGOD TALUK AND DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.T.SETHUMADHAVAN SRI.PUSHPARAJAN KODOTH RESPONDENTS: ------------- STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA, ERNAKULAM. (CRIME NO.288/2006 OF THE KUMBLA POLICE STATION.) BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR SHRI P.N.SUKUMARAN THIS BAIL APPLICATION HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 03/01/2007, ALONG WITH BA NO. 7540 OF 2006 & BA NO.7542 OF 2006,THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: V. RAMKUMAR, J. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BAIL APPLICATION NOS.7532/06, 7540/06 & 7542/06 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ----------------------- - - - - - - DATED THIS THE 3rd DAY OF JANUARY, 2007 O R D E R Petitioner in B.A.No.7532/06 is the second accused, petitioners in B.A.No.7540/06 are acused Nos.10, 11, 12, 5 and 13 and petitioners in B.A.No.7542/06 are accused Nos.4, 7, 8 and 9 in Crime No.288/06 of Kumbla Police Station for offences punishable under sections 420 and 468 read with section 149 IPC. 2. Learned Public Prosecutor opposed the application submitting that this is a case in which documents were fabricated to make it appear that they were genuine documents. Even though I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners, I am inclined to give the petitioners an opportunity to surrender before the Investigating Officer for custodial interrogation and thereafter to have their regular application disposed of by the Magistrate concerned expeditiously. 3. Accordingly, the petitioners are directed to report before the Investigating Officer on any day between 4.1.2007 BA.NOS.7532/06, 7540/06 & 7542/06 Page numbers and 9.1.2007 for the purpose of custodial interrogation and recovery of incriminating documents, if any. The petitioners shall thereafter be produced before the Magistrate having jurisdiction on the same day and the Magistrate shall consider and dispose of the application for regular bail, if any, filed by the petitioners preferably on the same date on which they are filed. With this direction, these petitions are disposed of. V.RAMKUMAR, JUDGE dsn