India, Oct. 29 -- The Kerala High Court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to the Kochi judge booked under the Motor Vehicles Act after his 17-year-old son allegedly drove a Mercedes-Benz into a scooter, killing a 55-year-old street food vendor in Kochi.

A single-judge bench of Justice Kauser Edappagath said investigators had already questioned the judicial officer for four hours, and the judge would cooperate with the probe.

"There is no scope for custodial interrogation. Necessarily, he has to be granted protection. He is a judicial officer, and he will cooperate. For four hours, the police had interrogated him," justice Edappagath said.

The interim relief comes a day after the judge, who presides over a Motor Accidents Claims Tri...