THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.1972 OF 2011 DATED 8th MARCH, 2011. BETWEEN : Raj Vasant Pandit .. Petitioner-A.2 and The State of A.P. ..Respondents THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.1972 OF 2011 ORDER: Petitioner approaches this Court with a prayer to set aside the order dated 24.02.2011 passed by the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate at Nalgonda in Crl.M.P.No.24 of 2011 in C.C.No.2 of 2007 whereby he imposed the following conditions to return the passport of the petitioner: “ … on proper identification and acknowledgement, subject to conditions that the passport in original shall be produced before the Court as and when ordered if found necessary and also subject to condition of execution of Personal Bond in a sum of Rs.1,00,000/-.” Heard. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that criminal case against the petitioner is already quashed by the High Court in Crl.P.No.7179 of 2007 on 26.08.2010. Hence, the question of production of passport before the concerned Court and execution of bond does not arise. This Court is of the view that when no criminal proceedings are pending against the petitioner herein, there is no question of imposing conditions for returning the passport. Hence, the said conditions imposed by the learned Judge are hereby deleted and the learned Magistrate is directed to return the passport of the petitioner without imposing any conditions. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed. Miscellaneous petitions filed in this Criminal Petition, if any, shall stand closed. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 08.03.2011 sur