{"id":12743,"date":"2007-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kallaramkettil-sathyan-vs-state-of-kerala-on-2-november-2007"},"modified":"2014-04-06T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T10:11:41","slug":"kallaramkettil-sathyan-vs-state-of-kerala-on-2-november-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kallaramkettil-sathyan-vs-state-of-kerala-on-2-november-2007","title":{"rendered":"Kallaramkettil Sathyan vs State Of Kerala on 2 November, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Kallaramkettil Sathyan vs State Of Kerala on 2 November, 2007<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nCrl MC No. 3346 of 2007()\n\n\n1. KALLARAMKETTIL SATHYAN,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. S.I. OF POLICE, ELATHUR POLICE\n\n3. SHYAMALA, D\/O.KITAN,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.P.V.KUNHIKRISHNAN\n\n                For Respondent  : No Appearance\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice R.BASANT\n\n Dated :02\/11\/2007\n\n O R D E R\n                                R.BASANT, J\n                        ------------------------------------\n                       Crl.M.C.No.3346 of 2007\n                        -------------------------------------\n              Dated this the 2nd day of November, 2007\n\n                                  O R D E R\n<\/pre>\n<p>       The petitioner faces indictment in a prosecution under Section<\/p>\n<p>409 I.P.C. Cognizance has been taken on the basis of a final report<\/p>\n<p>submitted by the police. The petitioner had come to this Court with a<\/p>\n<p>prayer that the proceedings against him may be quashed invoking the<\/p>\n<p>powers under Section 482 Cr.P.C.              That petition was dismissed by<\/p>\n<p>order dated 8.10.05. The petitioner was permitted to raise the plea of<\/p>\n<p>discharge before the learned Magistrate.\n<\/p>\n<p>       2.   The petitioner is now employed abroad. He is not able to<\/p>\n<p>return India. He is willing to appear before the learned Magistrate<\/p>\n<p>through counsel and seek discharge. But the petitioner complains that<\/p>\n<p>the learned Magistrate is insisting on the personal appearance of the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner before the plea of discharge is considered.<\/p>\n<p>       3.   In the peculiar facts and circumstances of this case, I am<\/p>\n<p>satisfied that a direction can be issued to the learned Magistrate to<\/p>\n<p>permit the petitioner to advance his plea of discharge under Section<\/p>\n<p>239 Cr.P.C through counsel. Personal presence of the petitioner need<\/p>\n<p>not be insisted until the learned Magistrate comes to a conclusion that<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">Crl.M.C.No.3346 of 2007            2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>the charges are liable to the framed. If charges are not liable to be<\/p>\n<p>framed, of course, his personal presence need not be insisted.<\/p>\n<p>     This Crl.M.C is allowed to the above extent.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                (R.BASANT, JUDGE)<br \/>\nrtr\/-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Kallaramkettil Sathyan vs State Of Kerala on 2 November, 2007 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM Crl MC No. 3346 of 2007() 1. KALLARAMKETTIL SATHYAN, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY &#8230; Respondent 2. S.I. OF POLICE, ELATHUR POLICE 3. SHYAMALA, D\/O.KITAN, For Petitioner :SRI.P.V.KUNHIKRISHNAN For Respondent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-kerala-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kallaramkettil Sathyan vs State Of Kerala on 2 November, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kallaramkettil-sathyan-vs-state-of-kerala-on-2-november-2007\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kallaramkettil Sathyan vs State Of Kerala on 2 November, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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