IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.UBAID THURSDAY, THE 04TH DAY OF JULY 2019 / 13TH ASHADHA, 1941 Crl.MC.No.4658 of 2019 ST 279/2017 of JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE OF FIRST CLASS, KODUNGALLUR PETITIONER/ACCUSED :

MOHAMMEDALI, S/O.MOOSA, AGED 55, PANIKKASSERY HOUSE, KOORIKUZHI DESOM, KAIPAMANGALAM VILLAGE, KODUNGALLUR TALUK.

BY ADVS.

SRI.M.SHAJU PURUSHOTHAMAN SRI.K.S.RAJESH RESPONDENT:

STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA, ERNAKULAM.

OTHER PRESENT:

SRI.C.K.PRASAD -P.P THIS CRIMINAL MISC. CASE HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON

04.07.2019, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING:

ORDER

The petitioner herein is the accused in five cases before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Kodungallur; all involving the offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. The petitioner wants to surrender before the trial court , but his concern is that the trial court would not accept two sureties for the five cases, and so, he seeks a direction. If any Judicial Magistrate in Keraka has been maintaining such a stand that separate sureties will have to be produced in different cases, it is against the settled law