IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD WEDNESDAY, THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.10126 OF 2009 Between: S. Prasad, S/o. Satya Rao ……Petitioner – Accused AND The State of A.P., Rep. by the Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad .....Respondent HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.10126 OF 2009 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioner S. Prasad, accused, seeking to quash the proceedings against him in Crime No.24 of 2009-10 of Prohibition and Excise Station, Visakhapatnam – III, Visakhapatnam District, registered for the offence under Section 34(a) of A.P. Excise Act, 1968 read with 8(b)(i) of A.P. Prohibition Act. 2. Heard. 3. The liquor that was found in possession of the petitioner was foreign liquor and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor submits that possession of duty unpaid foreign liquor of any quantity is offence. 4. In the circumstances, it is directed that investigation and consequential steps on the basis of result of the investigation shall go on. The petitioner can take all the pleas raised in this petition before the trial Court also. 5. With the above directions, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. ____________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J December 16, 2009. PV