Citation : 2023 Latest Caselaw 4424 AP
Judgement Date : 21 September, 2023
HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI
MAIN CASE No.: Crl.A.No.900 of 2017
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28. 21.09.2023 AVSS, J & VJP,J
I.A.No.3 of 2023
Heard Sri Ramalakshmana Reddy Sanepalli,
learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Y.Nagi Reddy, learned Public Prosecutor for the State.
This application is filed under sub-section (1) of Section 389 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, seeking bail.
The petitioner herein is the accused No.1 in Sessions Case No.531 of 2008 on the file of the Court of I Additional Sessions Judge, Kurnool. The learned I Additional Sessions Judge, Kurnool, convicted the petitioner herein along with five others for the offence punishable under Section 302 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and sentenced to undergo life imprisonment. In the present application, petitioner (accused No.1) is seeking his enlargement on bail for a period of 30 days to give medical assistance to his wife. Paragraphs 4 and 5 of the bail application read as follows:
"4. It is respectfully submitted that the petitioner Wife namely M.Eswaramma, who is suffering with SWINE FLU and taking treatment at Shanthiram Medical Hospital at Nandyala, she is undergoing treatment in Intensive Care Unit (I.C.U.) and her condition is very critical and she requires mechanical ventilator support, such conditions to support the patient as a Husband his presence is very much necessary, and now he is in undergoing sentence in the above said Crime. It is therefore prayed that this Hon'ble Court to enlarge the petitioner on medical bail for 30 days, to assist and to give better medical treatment and to give moral support, as children are unable to give proper assistance and the son of the petitioner is admitted in hospital and daughter is a student. Under these circumstances petitioner being a husband, he has to look after his wife medical necessities, if this Hon'ble Court does not grant the medical bail petitioner would suffer irreparable loss and hardships. Hence the present bail petition.
5. The appellant is in jail from the date of judgment till this date, since his wife suffering serious illness the appellant filed present application seeking bail for 30 days to give medical assistance to his wife. The copy of medical certificate is filed herewith for kind perusal of this Hon'ble Court, the appellant is ready to obey the conditions imposed."
The instructions furnished by the Station House Officer, Velgode, are placed on record by the learned Public Prosecutor and the said instructions confirm the illness of the wife of the petitioner and also the admission of his wife in Shanthiram Super Specialty Hospital, Nandyala due to SWINE FLU.
Having regard to the reasons mentioned in the application and taking into consideration the instructions furnished by the Sub-Inspector of Police Velugodu and also the medical record filed along with the application, the present application is allowed, directing the enlargement of the petitioner (accused No.1) in Sessions Case No.531 of 2008 on the file of the Court of I Additional Sessions Judge, Kurnool, subject to the petitioner executing a personal bond for Rs.10,000/- with two sureties for a likesum each to the satisfaction of the Court of Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Atmakur. It is made clear that by 5.00 p.m. on 22.10.2023, the petitioner shall surrender before the Jail Superintendent, Central Prison, Kadapa, YSR Kadapa District. It is also made clear that the petitioner herein shall appear before the Police Station, Velugodu on every Saturday in between 10.00 a.m. and 11.00 a.m.
Crl.A.No.900 of 2017
Post in usual course.
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