HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.11351 of 2011 ORDER : The petitioner approached this Court with a prayer to release the vehicle Tata Indica Car bearing Registration No. AP-09 TV-9927, which was seized in connection with Crime No.82 of 2011 of Ibrahimpatnam Police Station, Karimnagar District. 2) Heard. 3) Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner filed an application under Section 451 Cr.P.C., before the Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Metpalli, for interim custody of his vehicle, but the same was dismissed on the ground that the charge sheet has not been filed and the case is at the stage of investigation. The learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that aggrieved by the said order, the petitioner has preferred a Criminal Revision Petition before the learned II Additional District and Sessions Judge, Karimnagar at Jagtial and the learned Sessions Judge has dismissed the said Petition. Aggrieved by the orders of both the Courts below, the present Criminal Petition has been preferred. 4) I have perused the record and I am of the considered opinion that provisions under Section 451 Cr.P.C., for interim custody of the vehicle, can be invoked irrespective of the stage of investigation and filing of the charge sheet. There is no dispute that the vehicle in question belongs to the petitioner herein. 5) Considering the above circumstances, it is directed that the vehicle Tata Indica Car bearing No. AP-09-TV-9927 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 executing a personal bond for Rs.3,00,000/- (Rupees Three Lakhs only) with one surety to the satisfaction of Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Metpally. 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 or Police. 6) Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Date : 16.11.2011 CHV