Selvam v. State Rep By
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
( Criminal Jurisdiction ) Monday, the Sixth day of June Two Thousand Twenty Two PRESENT The Hon`ble Mr Justice G.K. ILANTHIRAIYAN CRIMINAL ORIGINAL PETITION No.12017 of 2022 SELVAM [ PETITIONER / ACCUSED ] Vs STATE REP BY [ RESPONDENT ] INSPECTOR OF POLICE, DISTRICT CRIME BRANCH KRISHNAGIRI, KRISHNAGIRI DISTRICT.
CRIME NO.4 OF 2021 For Petitioner : M/S.R.RAJIV GANDHI Advocate For Respondent : MR.A.DAMODARAN, Additional public Prosecutor PETITION FOR BAIL 439 Cr.P.C.
ORDER : The Court Made the following order :- The petitioner, who was arrested and remanded to judicial custody on 12.04.2022 for the offence punishable under Sections 409, 463, 468, 471, 420 of IPC in crime No.4 of 2021 on the file of the respondent police, seeks bail.
2. The case of the prosecution is that the petitioner, working as Supervisor in TNEB, had swindled about Rs.2,70,00,000/- from the year 2017. As such based on the complaint made by the Assistant Engineer, the petitioner was arrayed as accused.
3. The learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the petitioner is an innocent person and he has been falsely implicated in this case. Hence, he seeks for grant of bail to the petitioner.
4. The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would submit that there are totally two accused, in which the petitioner is arrayed as A2. He would further submit that the accused persons, after collecting current consumption charges from the general public, https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/
failed to remit the same to the Government and as such, there is a loss of about Rs.2,70,00,000/- to the Government. Hence, he vehemently opposed to grant bail to the petitioner.
5. It is seen that there are totally two accused, in which the petitioner is arrayed as A2 and when the petitioner was working as Supervisor, he failed to remit the current consumption charges and other miscellaneous charges to the tune of about Rs.2,70,00,000/-. In fact, the petitioner was granted anticipatory bail by this Court on condition that the petitioner shall deposit a sum of Rs.1,00,00,000/-. However, the petitioner failed to deposit the same. Later, he was arrested and remanded to judicial custody on 12.04.2022. That apart, the offence was committed by the petitioner and other accused from the year 2017 to 2021 and the Officer concerned failed to verify the accounts and after period of four years, the complaint has been lodged. However, the petitioner has committed very serious offence.
6. Therefore, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, this criminal original petition is dismissed.
-sd/- 06/06/2022 This order, on being produced, be punctually observed and carried into execution by all concerned TRUE COPY Sub-Assistant Registrar (Statistics/C.S.) High Court, Madras - 600 104.
TO 1 THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE, DISTRICT CRIME BRANCH KRISHNAGIRI, KRISHNAGIRI DISTRICT.
2 THE SUPERINTENDENT, CENTRAL PRISON, SALEM.
3 THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR HIGH COURT, MADRAS.
CC to M/S.R.RAJIV GANDHI Advocate on payment of necessary charges CRL OP.12017/2022 Date :06/06/2022 JPA 09/06/2022 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/