IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD MONDAY, THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.V.SEETHAPATHY CRL.P.No.11484 OF 2010 Between:- Menakuru Mahendra Sreenivasa @ Mahendra Reddy …Petitioner A n d The State of A.P., Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad and another …Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.V.SEETHAPATHY CRL.P.No.11484 OF 2010 ORDER: This petition is filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking a direction to the I-Additional Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Kadapa to entertain the application in Cr.No.77 of 2008 of Pulivendula Police Station, Kadapa District filed for return of an amount of Rs.5 lakhs deposited before Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Kadapa, as per orders of this Court in Cr.P.No.6354 of 2008 dated 30-09-2008. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner/accused. None appeared for the respondent. Perused the records. 3. Petitioner is A-1 in Cr.No.77 of 2008 of Pulivendula Police Station. Earlier, the petitioner filed Crl.P.No.6354 of 2008 before this Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C to permit the petitioner to go to US and to direct the Station House Officer, Pulivendula Police Station to return his passport. This Court, by order dated 30-09-2008, inter alia directed the petitioner to deposit Rs.5 lakhs before the Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Kadapa towards security for his return to India and that the said amount shall be kept in fixed deposit. It is stated that subsequently the petitioner/A-1 has accordingly deposited Rs.5 lakhs before the Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Kadapa. It is stated that subsequently Cr.No.77 of 2008 was investigated into and charge sheet was also filed which was taken cognizance in P.R.C.No.27 of 2008 and the matter was settled before the Lok Adalath. As per the terms of the compromise entered into before the Lok Adalath, the case against petitoner/A-1 and others ended in acquittal. The order passed by this Court in Crl.P.No.6354 of 2008 only directs that the amount of Rs.5 lakhs so deposited shall be returned to the petitioner after the judgment, irrespective of the result of the trail. Now that the case is disposed of by way of compromise before the Lok Adalath, the petitioner seeks return of the said amount of Rs.5 lakhs deposited by him. The learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that initially an application was filed before the I- Additional Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Kadapa under Section 452 Cr.P.C., but the same was not entertained and the petitioner moved the same application before the Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Pulivendula and the learned Magistrate by order dated 30- 06-2010 directed that the petition be filed before I-Additional Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Kadapa, as the amount was deposited by the petitioner/A-1 before the Court of the Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Kadapa, in pursuance of the orders of this Court. The petitioner may file an application before the learned Magistrate at Kadapa for return of the amount of Rs.5 lakhs, notwithstanding that Cr.No.77 of 2008 is pertaining to Pulivendula Police Station. On filing such application, the learned Magistrate at Kadapa shall dispose of the same on its own merits. 4. In the result, the criminal petition is disposed of accordingly. _____________________ G.V.SEETHAPATHY, J 22nd November, 2010 Lrkm.