THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.2001 of 2011 & CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS PETITION No.2988 OF 2011 ORDER: Criminal Revision Case is filed aggrieved by order dated 03.09.2011 passed by the Additional Junior Civil Judge, Nandigama, in Crl.M.P.No.2581 of 2011 in Crime No.291 of 2011 of Nandigama Police Station, whereby the petition filed under Section 457 of Cr.P.C. seeking to release the case property i.e., Tractor bearing No.AP 7 Y 2520 to the petitioner, for interim custody, was dismissed. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent-State. Perused the records. The petitioner is the owner of the crime vehicle. In Sunderbhai Ambalal Desai v. 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 the result, the Criminal Revision Case is allowed and the case property i.e., Tractor bearing Registration No.AP 07 Y 2520, involved in Crime No.291 of 2011 of Nandigama Police Station, shall be entrusted to the 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.50,000/- (Rupees Fifty Thousand Only) with one surety for the likesum to the satisfaction of the Additional Junior Civil Judge, Nandigama. Further, the petitioner shall give an undertaking that he shall not alienate the said vehicle and shall produce the same as and when required in connection with the said crime. ___________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated :01.11.2011 v v [1] (2002) 10 SCC 283