THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO.8514 OF 2010 Dated 19th April, 2010 Between: Shoaib Malik …Petitioner And The Commissioner of police and Three others …Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri C.Padmanabha Reddy, Senior Counsel appearing For Sri T.Pradyumna Kumar Reddy Counsel for respondents 1 to 3: Advocate General Counsel for respondent No.4 : Sri T.Bali Reddy, Senior Counsel The Court made the following ORDER: In this writ petition, the petitioner, who is a Pakistani National, sought for certiorari to quash Crime No.63 of 2010 of WPS, CCS., DD., Control Room, Basheerbagah, Hyderabad. For the purpose of disposal of the present writ petition, it is not necessary to record the facts in detail. It will suffice to note that on the report given by respondent No.4; the abovementioned crime was registered against the petitioner for the offences under Sections 498-A, 420 and 506 IPC. The petitioner’s passport was seized in pursuance of the registration of the said crime and produced before the XIII- Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Nampally, Hyderabad. After taking notice, the learned Advocate General reported to the Court today, at the hearing, that in view of the statement made by respondent No.4, withdrawing her complaint against the petitioner, the police have dropped further action and have filed a report to this effect on 17.04.2010 under Section 173(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, before the jurisdictional Magistrate. Sri C.Padmanabha Reddy, learned Senior Counsel appearing for the petitioner, submitted that closure of the case in pursuance of the abovementioned report by the learned Magistrate will take time and that as the petitioner is required to leave for Pakistan in connection with certain post-marriage ceremonies, it would be in the interests of justice to direct the learned Magistrate to release the passport forthwith to the petitioner. This request of the learned Senior Counsel is not opposed either by the learned Advocate General appearing for respondents 1 to 3 or by Sri T.Bali Reddy, learned Senior Counsel representing respondent No.4. In view of the above, the XIII-Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Nampally, Hyderabad, is directed to immediately release and return the passport to the petitioner, pending closure of the case on the report submitted by the police. The learned Senior Counsel submitted that Sri Javed Razak, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner before the learned Magistrate, may be handed over the passport. The learned XIII-Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Nampally, Hyderabad, shall handover the petitioner’s passport to the said learned counsel on his making an appropriate application in this regard. Subject to the above observations, the writ petition is disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, WPMP No.10956 of 2010 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 19th April, 2010 vrn