COMMON ORDER

Dated this the 01st day of March, 2021 APPLICATIONS FOR REGULAR BAIL The applicants in the above aforesaid applications are the same persons. B.A.No.2091 of 2021 pertains to Crime No.19 of 2021 of Nattukal Police Station, while B.A.No.2092 of 2021 pertains to Crime No.16 of 2021 of the same Police Station. The prosecution case, in brief, is this:

2. On 22.01.2021, at about 8.30 PM, the applicants allegedly broke open the house of the defacto complainant at Kunnumpuram and committed theft of Rs.8,500/- from there and thus committed the offences punishable under Sections 457 and 380 of the IPC. On the very same day, they allegedly robbed the DVR of the CCTV attached to that house worth Rs.15,000/- and thus committed the offences punishable under Sections 457, 461 and 480 of the IPC, in consequence of which, the 2nd crime was also registered. The applicants state that on 25.01.2021, they had returned these articles to the defacto complainant and in consequence of that, the defacto complainant made a complaint to the Police and the crimes were registered. The applicants state that they are innocent and that they do not have any criminal antecedents. The recovery of the stol