IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.S.DIAS MONDAY, THE 23^RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER 2024 / 1ST ASWINA, 1946 BAIL APPL. NO. 7261 OF 2024 CRIME NO.787/2024 OF KATTAPPANA POLICE STATION, IDUKKI PETITIONER:

SALIM MOLLEKKADA, AGED 45 YEARS MOLLEKKADA, KATTAPPANA KARA, KATTAPPANA VILLAGE, IDUKKI TALUK, IDUKKI., PIN - 685508 BY ADV TOM E. JACOB RESPONDENTS:

1 STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA, PIN - 682031 2 THE SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE, KATTAPPANA POLICE STATION,IDUKKI DISTRICT, PIN-685508, PIN - 685508 OTHER PRESENT:

SR PP SMT SEETHA S THIS BAIL APPLICATION HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON

23.09.2024, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING:

O R D E R

Dated this the 23^rd day of September,2024 The application is filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, by the sole accused in Crime No.787/2024 of the Kattappana Police Station, Idukki, which is registered against him for allegedly committing the offences punishable under Sections 294(b), 324, and 308 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860(‘IPC’, for short). The petitioner was arrested and remanded to judicial custody on

22.08.2024.

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