HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.9385 OF 2011 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner, under Section 482 of Cr.P.C., with a prayer to direct the 1st respondent herein to release Toyota Qualis bearing registration No.AP-25Q-4955 seized in connection with COR No.646/08-09 of Prohibition and Excise Station at Maheshwaram, Ranga Reddy District. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is owner of the vehicle and since the date of seizure, it is in the custody of the police and if it is exposed to sun and rain, there is every likelihood of the vehicle being spoiled. He further submitted that the petitioner is ready to give an undertaking that it will not alienate the vehicle and change its features and it will produce the vehicle as and when directed by the Court. Therefore, he prayed to allow the criminal petition. In Sunderbhai Ambalal Desai Vs. State of Gujarat[1] the Apex Court has laid down that in case of vehicles seized during investigation, they should not be allowed to deteriorate by being kept unused and unattended in the premises of the police stations. Therefore, the vehicle has to be entrusted to the interim custody of the petitioner subject to appropriate conditions. In view of the above, the Toyota Qualis bearing registration No.AP-25Q-4955 seized in connection with COR No.646/08-09 of Prohibition and Excise Station at Maheshwaram, Ranga Reddy District, shall be entrusted to the interim custody of the petitioner on the following conditions: a) it shall execute a personal bond for Rs.1,00,000/- (Rupees One lakh only) with one surety of the like sum to the satisfaction of the Station House Officer, Prohibition and Excise Station, Maheshwaram, Ranga Reddy District; b) it shall not alienate the vehicle or alter its nature; and c) it shall produce the vehicle before the Court concerned, as and when directed by the learned Magistrate. The Criminal Petition is allowed accordingly. __________________ RAJA ELANGO, J 30th September, 2011 cbs HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.9385 OF 2011 (Allowed) 30th September, 2011 cbs [1] (2002) 10 SCC 283