GEETHA RAMACHANDRAN Vs. S RAVICHANDRAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This revision has been filed against the orders passed in C.M.P. No. 2675 of 1999 in CC No. 330 of 1996, dated 17/11/1999, on the file of the District Munsif cum Judicial Magistrate Ambattur, refusing to declare the respondent herein as a proclaimed offender, as contemplated under Section 82 of the Cr.P.C.

(2.) The circumstances under which the said petition has come to be filed before the Court below is as follows:

(3.) The learned Magistrate having entertained the petition, dismissed the same observing thus: ... if a person (accused) departs from his place or remains in it, if he conceals himself, will not amount to abscond and that a person is absent he should not be readily available that he is an absconder without due enquiry and notice.