ORDER

Application for anticipatory bail. The petitioner was the Manager of the de facto complainant. The de facto complainant filed a complaint alleging the commission of offences punishable, inter alia, under Secs.465 and 471 of the IPC. The crux of the allegations is that the de facto complainant had entered into an agreement for purchase of land with one Nalini Damodaran – the owner of the property. The petitioner – the Manager of the de facto complainant, was a witness to that agreement. 12.33 Acres of the said property had to be surrendered by the said Nalini Damodaran under the land ceiling proceedings. A sale deed was executed by the said Nalini Damodaran in favour of the de facto complainant. Thus, the de facto complainant is the owner of the property, entitled to possession of the same. But the de facto complainant realised that the land tax in respect of the property was being remitted in the name of the office bearers of a Trust by name “Sree Narayana Dharma Vichara Trust”. The said Trust, in turn, claimed rights under the petitioner herein. The petitioner, in turn, claimed that there was an oral lease of the property in his favour. The de facto complainant found that the