ORDER

This Criminal Miscellaneous Case is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (“the Code” for the sake of brevity).

2. The petitioner is the accused in CC No.613 of 2019 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Kothamangalam, arising from Occurrence Report No.7 of 2009 of Kothamangalam Forest Range Office, Ernakulam. It is submitted that a warrant is issued by the trial court.

3.The petitioner submits that the petitioner is ready to surrender before the jurisdictional court and if he surrender before the jurisdictional court, jurisdictional court may remand him without considering their bail application.

4. The Public Prosecutor submitted that no such apprehension is necessary and this court may not pass any direction to the lower court to release the petitioner on bail and that is a matter to be decided by the trial court.

5. This court inVineeth Somarajan @ Ambadi v. State of Kerala and another ( 2009 (3) KHC 471 ) relied on the dictum laid down by another learned Single Judge inBiju S. Praveen v. State of Kerala and Another ( 2007 (2) KLT 280 ) considered this point. It will be better to extract the relevant portion ofVineeth Somarajan'