ORDER

Application for anticipatory bail. The petitioner faces allegations in a crime registered, inter alia, under Sec.376 of the IPC. Investigation is complete. Final report has already been filed. Committal proceedings was registered before the learned Magistrate. The petitioner was not available for trial in the course of investigation. Even before the committal court, he could not appear as he was employed abroad. The co-accused have already been committed to the Court of Sessions. The petitioner's case has been split up and is continuing to be pending in the committal court. The petitioner, who is employed abroad, has come back to India. He is willing to surrender before the learned Magistrate. There is a sense of urgency on his part as, according to him, he has to return after the period of leave of 45 days. The trial in the connected sessions case against the co-accused has commenced. The petitioner is now willing to surrender before the learned Magistrate. He wants the case against him also to be committed to the Court of Session expeditiously so that he can take a chance and make a request to the learned Magistrate to consolidate both the sessions cases and proceed together