{"id":178413,"date":"2007-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/vasantha-vs-state-of-kerala-on-4-december-2007"},"modified":"2015-09-21T09:37:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T04:07:53","slug":"vasantha-vs-state-of-kerala-on-4-december-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/vasantha-vs-state-of-kerala-on-4-december-2007","title":{"rendered":"Vasantha vs State Of Kerala on 4 December, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Vasantha vs State Of Kerala on 4 December, 2007<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nBail Appl No. 7439 of 2007()\n\n\n1. VASANTHA, MELEPUTHEN VEEDU,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY ITS\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE EXCISE INSPECTOR,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.G.P.SHINOD\n\n                For Respondent  : No Appearance\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice R.BASANT\n\n Dated :04\/12\/2007\n\n O R D E R\n                               R.BASANT, J\n                       ------------------------------------\n                        B.A.No.7439 of 2007\n                       -------------------------------------\n              Dated this the 4th day of December, 2007\n\n                                   ORDER\n<\/pre>\n<p>      Application for anticipatory bail. Petitioner, a woman, faces<\/p>\n<p>allegations under the Kerala Abkari Act. She was allegedly found<\/p>\n<p>to be in possession of 3 litres of arrack on 14.11.2007.        She<\/p>\n<p>could not be arrested as the detecting excise party did not consist<\/p>\n<p>of any woman official.           Investigation is in progress.  The<\/p>\n<p>petitioner apprehends imminent arrest.\n<\/p>\n<p>      2.    The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner is absolutely innocent. The article in question was not<\/p>\n<p>kept by the petitioner at the place from where it was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The husband of her servant had allegedly kept the article there.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations against the petitioner are raised without any valid<\/p>\n<p>justification, submits the learned counsel for the petitioner.<\/p>\n<p>      3.    The learned Public Prosecutor opposes the application.<\/p>\n<p>All the available indications point to the culpability of the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner. No circumstances exist warranting or justifying the<\/p>\n<p>invocation of the extraordinary equitable discretion under Section<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">B.A.No.7439 of 2007              2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>438 Cr.P.C. The petitioner may be directed to surrender before<\/p>\n<p>the learned Magistrate or the Investigating Officer and then seek<\/p>\n<p>regular bail in the ordinary course, submits the learned Public<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor.\n<\/p>\n<p>     4.    I find merit in the opposition by the learned Public<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor. This, I am satisfied, is a fit case where the petitioner<\/p>\n<p>must appear before the learned Magistrate having jurisdiction or<\/p>\n<p>the Investigating Officer and then seek bail in the regular and<\/p>\n<p>ordinary course. I find no features in this case which can justify<\/p>\n<p>or warrant the invocation of the extraordinary equitable<\/p>\n<p>discretion under Section 438 Cr.P.C.\n<\/p>\n<p>     5.    This application is, in these circumstances, dismissed,<\/p>\n<p>but I may hasten to observe that if the petitioner surrenders<\/p>\n<p>before the Investigating Officer or the learned Magistrate and<\/p>\n<p>applies for bail after giving sufficient prior notice to the<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor in charge of the case, the learned Magistrate must<\/p>\n<p>proceed to pass appropriate orders on merits and expeditiously.<\/p>\n<p>                                             (R.BASANT, JUDGE)<br \/>\nrtr\/-\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">B.A.No.7439 of 2007    3<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Vasantha vs State Of Kerala on 4 December, 2007 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM Bail Appl No. 7439 of 2007() 1. VASANTHA, MELEPUTHEN VEEDU, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY ITS &#8230; Respondent 2. THE EXCISE INSPECTOR, For Petitioner :SRI.G.P.SHINOD For Respondent : No Appearance The [&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-178413","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 v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vasantha vs State Of Kerala on 4 December, 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\/vasantha-vs-state-of-kerala-on-4-december-2007\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vasantha vs State Of Kerala on 4 December, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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