IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

RESERVED ON : 22.02.2022

PRONOUNCED ON : 25.02.2022

CORAM :

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE R.PONGIAPPAN

Crl.O.P. No.3148 of 2022

R.D.Santhanakrishnan

...Petitioner / Accused

versus

State Rep. by

The Inspector of Police,

CBCID Cyber Crime,

Chennai.

(Crime No.13 of 2021)

...Respondent / Complainant

PRAYER: Criminal Original Petition has been filed under Section 439

of Cr.P.C., praying to enlarge the petitioner on bail in Crime No.13

of 2021 on the file of the respondent police.

For Petitioner : Mr.K.M.Vijayan

Senior Advocate

for Mr.K.Raghunath

For Respondent : Mr.Hasan Mohammed Jinnah

State Public Prosecutor

assisted by

Mrs.G.V.Kasthuri

Additional Public Prosecutor

ORDER

The petitioner, who was arrested and remanded to judicial custody

on 21.01.2022 for the offences punishable under Sections 228, 292(2)

(a), 294(a), 354A, 370(2) of IPC and Section 4 of Tamilnadu

Prohibition of Harassment of Woman Act, 1998 and 67A of Information

Technology Act, 2000 in Crime No.13 of 2021, on the file of the

respondent police, seeks bail.

2.

The case of the prosecution is