IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.S.DIAS TUESDAY, THE 16^TH DAY OF JANUARY 2024 / 26TH POUSHA, 1945 BAIL APPL. NO. 11221 OF 2023 CRIME NO.344/2021 OF SULTHANBATHERY EXCISE RANGE OFFICE, WAYANAD PETITIONER/2nd ACCUSED:

PRADEESH P P AGED 39 YEARS S/O PRABHSKARAN, POZHAMBALLAM HOUSE, KORANODY, VARANDARAPPILLY POST, THRISSUR., PIN - 680303 BY ADV V.A.NAVAS RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT:

STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA, PIN - 682031 BY SR PP SMT SEETHA S THIS BAIL APPLICATION HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON

16.01.2024, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING:

O R D E R

Dated this the 16^th day of January, 2024 The application is filed under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973(‘Code’, for short), for an order of pre-arrest bail.

2. The petitioner is the second accused in Crime No.344/2021 of the Sulthanbathery Excise Range Office, Wayanad, registered against the accused (two in number) alleging them to have committed the offences under Sections 10 and 58 of the Kerala Abkari Act.

3. The prosecution case, in brief, is that: on

01.12.2021, at about 12.20 p.m, the Detecting Officer and team found the