THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R.KANTHA RAO. CRL. PETITION No. 10525 of 2010. ORDER: This criminal petition is filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. seeking to direct the respondent to give interim custody of the vehicle bearing No. AP 10 TV 2462 seized in Cr.No. 38/2010-11 of Prohibition and Excise Police, Nandigama, Krishna District. I have heard the learned Counsel appearing for the petitioner and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor representing the State. In Crl.P.No. 8773 of 2010 and batch dt. 5.10.2010 this Court declined to excise the jurisdiction of this Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C. in the matter of release of vehicles holding that when an alternative remedy of filing revision is available before the concerned Court, the petitioners cannot approach this Court for release of the vehicles seized invoking the jurisdiction of this Court u/s 482 Cr.P.C. In the instant case, the petitioner filed a petition before the Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Nandigama seeking interim custody of the vehicle and the said court returned same on the ground that the petition is not maintainable in view of Section 46-E of the A.P. Excise Act and therefore, he filed the present petition before this Court invoking the jurisdiction of this Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C. Under Section 46-E of the A.P. Excise Act 1968, the Deputy Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise is competent to direct the interim custody of the vehicles seized under the Excise Act. Therefore, the petitioner cannot invoke the jurisdiction of this Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for the release of the vehicle. Accordingly, the criminal petition is dismissed with liberty to the petitioner to approach the concerned authority under the Excise Act for the release of the vehicle. _______________________ R.KANTHA RAO,J 26.10.2010. KRB. THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R.KANTHA RAO. CRL. PETITION No. 10525 of 2010. ORDER: Dt. 26.10.2010.