1. The petitioner in this Revision petition is the accused in Crime No.118/2013 of Peroorkada Police station registered under Sections 457 and 380 of the Indian Penal Code as well as counter petitioner in C.M.P.No.397/2013 on the files of the Judicial Magistrate of First Class-II, Thiruvananthapuram. The above C.M.P. was filed by the State represented by K.E.Biju, S/o. Krishnamoorthy, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Crime Detachment, Thiruvananthapuram City seeking custody of the Revision petitioner for a period of 10 days from 2/2/2013 for the purpose of investigation in the above-said crime.

2. The consolidated version of the allegations against the Revision petitioner which reveals from the affidavit accompanying the above petition and the statement filed by the above said Assistant Commissioner in this Revision petition is as follows: On 21-1-2013 morning, a Mitsubishi Outlander Luxury Car worth Rs.29,00,072/-, a laptop computer worth Rs.1,05,000/-, a Nokia lumia telephone worth Rs.40,000/- and another Nokia telephone worth Rs.15,000/-, a high beam torch, an original M.B.B.S certificate, some jewellery and a bunch of keys were found stolen from the house of one Mr.Venugopalan Nair, a NRI Industrialist residing in Thiruvananthapuram City. The above house by name 'Vishnu Bhavan' bearing No.TC.3/2468/5 is situating in Muttada Ward of Kawdiar Village, a prime location of Thiruvananthapuram City. On information given by the said Venugopalan Nair, the above crime was registered on the same day at 7.45 a.m. The house had all modern security system including complete night vision perimeter, surveillance camera, an intruder warning system response to sound etc. During the primary investigation itself, the accused was identified with the help of CCTV camera clippings taken from the place of occurrence, as Devendor Singh @Bhandi Chor, S/o.Kripal Singh, the Revision petitioner herein. On further investigation with SCRB, NCRB and Data Bank, it is revealed that the Revision Petitioner has committed the above theft and he is a notorious hard core criminal hailing from New Delhi, having more than 700 burglaries in his credit. On further verification of CCTV camera clippings, it is revealed that the Revision petitioner had reached the place of occurrence by a Maruti Esteem Car bearing No.KA 03-N 2580 driven by him, after parking the said car on the road in front of the house, he jumped over the boundary wall, break opened the glass door of one of the windows and entered inside the house and committed the theft. On investigation about the Maruti Esteem car, it is also revealed that the said car was one which was stolen from another house and after substituting a false number plate, the Revision petitioner himself drove the car and arrived at the place of occurrence. After the commission of the theft, he abandoned the Maruti Esteem car by which he reached there and fled by using Mitsubishi Outlander which was stolen from the above said house. After identification of the Revision petitioner, though police chased him, he drove the car along Krishna Giri-Hosur Inter-state Highway and reached Bangalore. He abandoned the Mitsubishi Outlander car at Kelamangalam, a place in Krishna Giri district. The number plate was found substituted by a false number plate bearing No. TN-74-M-0480. Thereafter, by a hired car he reached Pune, the place from where he was found out and taken into custody on 27-1-2013. At that time he was found in possession of a Tavera Car. After the arrest, he was brought to Thiruvananthapuram by Air India flight under strong surveillance. During the questioning, the Revision petitioner admitted the guilt and produced stolen laptop and mobile phones from his bag. Subsequently he was produced before the Judicial First Class Magistrate-II, Thiruvananthapuram on 29-1-2013 at 9.30 a.m. and the court remanded him to judicial custody.

3. On 2-2-2013 a custody application was filed before the court to get the police custody o