1. This Criminal Revision Case has been filed seeking to call for the records of the Judicial Magistrate No. II, Kumbakonam in C.C. No. 642 of 2007 and to set aside the order dated 20.02.2018.

2. This case raises a seminal issue qua the power of the Court to cancel the bail of an absconded accused in a case involving a bailable offence.

3. Shorn of the minute details, the facts germane for deciding this case are as under:

3.1 On 07.03.2002, four accused abducted the de facto complainant posing themselves as CB-CID sleuths. The police rescued the de facto complainant from the said abductors and registered a case in Cr. No. 88 of 2002 under Sections 419 and 363 IPC and arrested the accused.

3.2 In this petition, we are concerned with the case of A4 (Pillappan @ Ravikumar) who is the petitioner herein. The petitioner was produced before the Judicial Magistrate No. II, Kumbakonam on 07.03.2002 and was remanded to custody. As the offences for which he was arrested were bailable, the petitioner was released on bail by the Judicial Magistrate No. II, Kumbakonam on 11.03.2002, on condition that he should execute a bond with two sureties. After completing the investigation, the police fi