1. In these petitions filed under Section 438 Cr.P.C. the petitioners who claim to be A1, A2 and A4 to A9 in Crime No. 186 of 2010 of Agali Police Station registered for offences punishable under Sections 464, 465, 468, 420 and 120 B read with Sec. 34 I.P.C. and Sec. 3 (1) (iv) and (v) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 seek anticipatory bail. The petitioner in B.A. 5910 of 2009 is A4, the petitioner in B.A. 5914/2010 is A1, the petitioners in B.A. 6594 of 2010 claim to be A5 to A9 and the petitioner in B.A. 6673 of 2010 is A2. According to the petitioners, the names of the various persons arrayed as accused persons in the above crime, so far, are as follows:-

A1 - Binu S. Nair of Agali in Palakkad District A2 - Joy K.S. of Sholayur A3 - Sankaranarayanan @ Periya Thambi of Palakkad District A4 - Prem Shameer of Beppur, Kozhikode A5 - Chandrasekhara Panicker of Kottayam District A6 - Linish T.M. of Kottayam District A7 - T.V. Somasekharan Nair of Agali A8 - Bindu S. Nair of Agali A9 - Rathi Devi of Kottayam District

2. I heard Advocate Sri. Babu S. Nair, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioners in B.A. Nos. 5910, 5914