Citation : 2022 Latest Caselaw 8562 Ker
Judgement Date : 6 July, 2022
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
PRESENT
THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE VIJU ABRAHAM
WEDNESDAY, THE 6TH DAY OF JULY 2022 / 15TH ASHADHA, 1944
BAIL APPL. NO. 3391 OF 2022
CRIME NO.467/2022 OF Town East Police Station, Thrissur
AGAINST THE ORDER/JUDGMENT IN CRMC 402/2022 OF DISTRICT COURT &
SESSIONS COURT,THRISSUR
PETITIONERS/ACCUSED 1 & 2:
1 ROHINI C C, AGED 32 YEARS,
DAUGHTER OF CHANDRAN, CHAZHIPADATH HOUSE, PANDIKKAVU
DESOM, VIYYUR VILLAGE AND POST, THRISSUR, PIN - 680008
2 VAISAKH,AGED 29 YEARS, S/O. CHANDRAN, CHAZHIPADATH HOUSE,
PANDIKKAVU DESOM, VIYYUR VILLAGE AND POST, THRISSUR, PIN
- 680008
BY ADVS.
N.ASHOK KUMAR
RENJU SEBASTIAN
RESPONDENTS/STATE & DEFACTO COMPLAINANT:
1 STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR,HIGH
COURT OF KERALA, PIN - 682031
2 JAYA RAVEENDRAN, AGED 62 YEARS,
W/O. RAVEENDRAN, SIVAM APARTMENT - THAIVALAPPIL,
KUNNATHUMANA LANE, NAKKANAL DESOM, THRISSUR, PIN - 680001
BY ADVS.
P.MOHANDAS(ERNAKULAM) P.
K.SUDHINKUMAR(K/572/2014)
S.K.ADHITHYAN(K/681/2016)
SABU PULLAN(K/35/2001)
GOKUL D. SUDHAKARAN(K/000886/2016)
K.P.SATHEESAN (SR.)(S-242)
THIS BAIL APPLICATION HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON
06.07.2022, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING:
B.A. No. 3391 of 2022 2
VIJU ABRAHAM, J.
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B.A. No. 3391 of 2022
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Dated this the 6th day of July, 2022
ORDER
This is an application for anticipatory bail.
2. Petitioners are the accused persons 1 & 2 in
Crime No.467 of 2022 of Thrissur Town East Police
Station, registered alleging commission of offences
punishable under Sections 406, 409, 420, 467, r/w 34
of IPC.
3. The prosecution case is that the husband of
the defacto complainant named Mr.Raveendran was a
cancer patient. The petitioners were engaged to
assist the husband of the defacto complainant during
the period from 1.1.2020 to 20.1.2021. It is
alleged that the petitioners during the above period
cheated the husband of the defacto complainant and
took advantage of the mental condition of the
husband of the defacto complainant and made him to
execute documents by which his properties were
purportedly transferred and amounts were withdrawn
from his bank account.
4. The specific case of the petitioners that a
false case has been foisted against them. It is
submitted as regards the Will in question a suit has
been filed by the defacto complainant as O.S.No.66
of 2022 before the Mastiffs' Court, Thrissur, and a
copy of the plaint is produced along with the bail
application is Annexure-A9 and in the said suit
there is a specific pleading by the defacto
complainant that the alleged Will has been cancelled
by the testator himself.
5. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners
and the learned Public Prosecutor.
6. The learned Public Prosecutor though opposed
the application for bail, submitted that the
petitioners have no other criminal antecedents and
the investigation is going on.
7. Having regard to the facts and circumstances
of the case, and considering the nature of the
allegations against the petitioners, the bail
application is allowed with the following
directions. The petitioners shall surrender before
the investigating officer on 15.07.2022. In the
event of arrest of the petitioners in Crime No.467
of 2022 of Thrissur Town East Police Station, the
petitioners shall be released on bail on the
following conditions:
(i) The petitioners shall execute a bond
for sum of Rs.50,000/- (Rupees fifty
thousand only) each with two solvent
sureties each for the like sum to the
satisfaction of the jurisdictional Court;
(ii) Petitioners shall appear before the
investigating officer in Crime No.467/2022
of Thrissur Town East Police Station as and
when summoned to do so;
(iii) Petitioners shall co-operate with the
investigation and make themselves available
for interrogation whenever required;
(iv) Petitioners shall not tamper with any
evidence;
(v) Petitioners shall not directly or
indirectly make any inducement, threat or
promise to any witness acquainted with the
facts of the case so as to dissuade them
from disclosing such facts to the court or
to any police officer;
(vi) Petitioners shall not involve in any
other crime while on bail.
If any of the aforesaid conditions are violated,
the Investigating Officer in Crime No.467/2022 of
Thrissur Town East Police Station, may file an
application before this Court for cancellation of
bail.
It is made clear that it is within the power of
the police to investigate the matter and if
necessary to effect recoveries on the information if
any given by any of the petitioners even when the
petitioners are on bail as per the judgment of the
Apex Court in Sushila Aggarwal and others v. State
(NCT of Delhi) and another (2020 (1) KHC 663).
sd/-
VIJU ABRAHAM,JUDGE
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