HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.7704 OF 2010 Dated : 17.08.2010 Between : G.Indal … Petitioners-accused A n d The State of A.P. & others … Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.7704 OF 2010 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is filed by the petitioner-accused seeking to order for release of auto bearing No.AP36 X 7037 seized in Crime No.56 of 2010 of Devarauppula Police Station, Warangal District, registered for the offence punishable under Sections 7 and 8 (e) of A.P. Prohibition Act. On 15.07.2010 while the petitioner was transporting 265 kgs of black jaggery through the crime vehicle from Jangaon to his place at Pedda Thanda, the respondent-Police seized the said vehicle. Heard. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner is the owner of the vehicle and the same is very much essential for running his kirana shop and also submitted that he is ready to produce the vehicle as and when required by the Court. Learned Additional Public Prosecutor also submitted interim custody of the crime vehicle can be granted to the petitioner by imposing certain conditions. Considering these circumstances, it is directed that vehicle i.e. auto bearing No.AP36 X 7037 shall be released for interim custody of the petitioner, subject to final orders to be passed at the time of disposal of main case, on his executing a personal bond for Rs.50,000/- (Rupees Fifty Thousand only) with one surety for the like sum and also on production of original R.C. book. It is further directed that the petitioner shall not alienate the vehicle, shall not change the physical features of the same till the disposal of the criminal case and further he shall undertake to produce the vehicle as and when required by the Court. Accordingly, the criminal petition is allowed. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 17.08.2010 sur