IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
PRESENT
THE HONOURABLE MRS. JUSTICE ANNIE JOHN
TUESDAY, THE 05TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 2019 / 14TH KARTHIKA,
1941
Bail Appl.No.7672 OF 2019
CRIME NO.666/2019 OF Palakkad Town South Police Station,
Palakkad
APPLICANTS/ ACCUSED NOS. 1 2 :
1 VELAYUDHAN,
AGED 44 YEARS,
S/O. CHAMI, KUNNATH HOUSE, CHIRA,
MANJAPPRA, AYAKKAD POST, VADAKKENCHERRY,
ALATHUR, PALAKKAD
2 PRABHAKARAN,
AGED 61 YEARS,
S/O. VELAYUDHAN, KANIYARKODE HOUSE,
KUNISSERY POST, ALATHUR, PALAKKAD.
BY ADV. SRI.V.A.JOHNSON (VARIKKAPPALLIL)
RESPONDENT/ COMPLAINANT :
STATE OF KERALA
REPRESENTED BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR,
HIGH COURT OF KERALA, ERNAKULAM – 682 031.
BY SR. PUBLIC PROSECUTR SRI.M.S.BREEZ
THIS BAIL APPLICATION HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON
05.11.2019, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE
FOLLOWING:
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ORDER
The petitioners herein are accused Nos.1 and 2 in
Crime No.666/2019 of Palakkad Town South Police Station,
Palakkad registered for offences punishable under Sections
498A read with 34 SectionIPC.
2. The instant case is registered based on the
complaint filed by the maternal uncle of the deceased
alleging that his sister’s daughter, Smt. Suja, who is married
to A1 on 10.04.2019, committed suicide at her paternal home
at Manapullikkavu on 10.09.2019 by hanging herself. It was
also revealed that she was subjected for mental and physical
torture and harassment bargaining more dowries by her
husband and in-laws driving her to commit such highhanded
act. According to the petitioner’s counsel, the deceased
committed suicide in her own house and prior to the said act,
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she was residing with her parents for more than one month
without having any contact with the first petitioner.
3. Since the wife of the first petitioner had
committed suicide immediately after the marriage and since
there is an allegation on the part of the de facto
complainant’s relatives that she was mentally and physically
tortured by the petitioners, which driven her to commit
suicide, it is a matter to be investigated. So the custodial
interrogation of the petitioners are highly required in this
case.
Considering all these facts, I do hereby direct the
parties to surrender before the Station House Officer,
Palakkad Town South Police Station on or before 30.11.2019
and after interrogation they shall be produced before the
concerned jurisdictional Magistrate Court on the same day
itself. The bail application and the custody application, if any,
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filed shall be considered and disposed of by the learned
Magistrate expeditiously.
This Bail Application is disposed of as above.
Sd/-
ANNIE JOHN, JUDGE
RKM