HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALAKRISHNA TAMADA CRL.P.No.13597 of 2010 ORDER: This petition is filed for quashing of the order dated 17.08.2010 passed in Crl.M.P.No.2701 of 2010 in Crime No.32 of 2010 on the file of the Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Yellamanchili, Visakhapatnam District. The Police, Payakaraopeta Police Station., Visakhapatnam District., registered a case in Crime No.32 of 2010 against the petitioner-A1 and others for the offences punishable under Sections 63 read with Sections 51 and 65 of Copyright Act, 1957 on the ground that he used the computer for downloading the songs etc., and selling the same without any copyrights. Since the petitioner herein is the owner of the said computer, he approached the Court below and filed Crl.M.P.No.2701 of 2010 for interim custody of the seized Monitor, CPU, Mouse, computer Keyboard etc and that the Court below by an order dated 17.08.2.2010, dismissed the said petition. Aggrieved by the same, the petitioner preferred this criminal petition stating that he is the owner of the said computer and he has nothing to do with the said crime and that if the said Monitor, CPU, Mouse, Keyboard computer are not released, he would be put to irreparable loss and hardship. Heard both sides. Having considered the submissions made by the learned Counsel for the petitioner and also having regard to the fact that the petitioner is the owner of the said computer, this Court is of the view that the computer etc., can be ordered to be released in favour of the petitioner by imposing certain conditions. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is disposed of at the stage of admission and the seized Monitor, CPU, Mouse, computer Keyboard etc shall be released in favour of the petitioner on condition of the petitioner executing a personal bond in a sum of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand only) with two sureties for a like sum each to the satisfaction of the Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Yelamanchili, Visakhapatnam District. Further the petitioner shall also give an undertaking not to alienate or transfer/encumber the computer Monitor, CPU, Mouse, computer keyboard and change the nature of the said items and to produce the same as and when he is directed by the Court below till the disposal of the case. ________________________ (GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J) 31.12.2010 Gsn