A court may allow procedural safeguards for bail applications post-surrender when the accused is unable to attend proceedings.

ORDER

Dated this the 31^st day of January, 2026 The accused in Crime No.784 of 2023 of Thamarassery Police Station, filed this Crl.M.C, praying for quashing all further proceedings against him in the above crime.

2. The learned Public Prosecutor, upon instructions submitted that, in this case, the Police already completed the investigation and filed Final Report before the Additional District and Sessions Court, Kozhikode.

3. Therefore, this Crl.M.C has become infructuous and it is accordingly dismissed as infructuous, with liberty to the petitioner to raise all contentions before the trial court.

4. At this stage, learned Counsel for the petitioner submitted that, since the petitioner was working abroad, he could not appear before the Sessions Court, which resulted in issuing coercive proceedings against him. The learned Counsel further submitted that the petitioner is ready to surrender before the learned Sessions Judge, within a period of 15 days.

Therefore, he seeks a direction to the learned Sessions Judge to consider and dispose of the bail application to be filed by the petitioner, on the date of filing itself.

Considering the entire facts, there will be a direction to the petitioner to surrender before the learned Sessions Judge within a period of 15 days from today, and a further direction to the learned Sessions Judge that, in case the petitioner surrenders as above and moves an application for bail, after serving copy to the Public Prosecutor in advance, the same shall be considered and disposed of, on the date of filing itself.

Sd/-