JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, praying to set aside the order passed by learned Judicial Magistrate, Uthangarai, Krishnagiri District, in Crl.M.P.No.3769 of 2023 in Crime No.160 of 2023 dated 14.08.2023.)

1. This Criminal Original Petition has been filed challenging the order passed by the Court below dismissing the petition filed by the petitioner u/s.167(2) Cr.P.C. seeking for statutory bail.

2. Heard Mr.E.Kannadasan, learned counsel for petitioner and Mr.A.Damodaran, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for respondent.

3. The petitioner was arrested by the respondent police in the course of investigation in Crime No.160 of 2023 and the petitioner was remanded to judicial custody on 12.05.2023. The First Information Report was registered for offence u/s.436 IPC. The final report was not filed within a period of 90 days. Hence, the petitioner filed a petition u/s.167(2) Cr.P.C. seeking for statutory bail and the same came to be dismissed by the Court below. Aggrieved by the same, the present petition has been filed before this Court.

4. On carefully going through the order passed by the Court below