THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL APPEAL No.841 of 2010 JUDGMENT: This Criminal Appeal is preferred against the order dated 27.09.2007 passed in Crl.M.P.No.827 of 2004 in C.C.No.24 of 2003 on the file of the Court of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad. The appellant is accused No.2 in C.C.No.24 of 2003 on the file of the Court of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge-cum-Special Court under Andhra Pradesh Protection of Depositors of Financial Establishments Act, Hyderabad, which arose out of Crime No.187 of 2003 of P.S. WCO, Team-II, CCS, Hyderabad, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 420, 406, 120-B I.P.C. and Sections 3 and 5 of the Andhra Pradesh Protection of Depositors of Financial Establishments Act, 1999 (for short ‘the Act’). As the allegations levelled against the accused in the said Crime are very serious, on the requisition made by the respondent-Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad, who is the competent authority under the Act, the Government passed ad-interim orders under Section 3 of the Act, attaching the properties of the accused in the said Crime and the connected persons in other crimes, vide G.O.Ms.No.18, dated 19.01.2004. During the pendency of the said C.C.No.24 of 2003, the respondent-Commissioner filed Crl.M.P.No.827 of 2004, under Section 4 of the Act, for making the ad-interim attachment order passed by the Government in G.O.Ms.No.18 dated 19.01.2004, absolute and the learned Metropolitan Sessions Judge, after considering the oral and documentary evidence, by his order dated 27.09.2007, partly allowed Crl.M.P.No.827 of 2004, making the order of attachment of the properties shown in Annexures I and II of G.O.Ms.No.18 dated 19.01.2004 except item No.11 of Annexure I, absolute. Aggrieved thereby, the present Criminal Appeal is filed by accused No.2. Today, when the matter is taken up for hearing, the learned counsel for the appellant submits that the main case i.e., C.C.No.24 of 2003 itself was disposed of by the learned Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad, vide judgment dated 08.05.2009, convicting accused No.1 alone for the offences punishable under Section 406 I.P.C. and Section 5 of the Act, while acquitting the remaining accused, including the appellant herein. In the light of the aforesaid subsequent developments, I am of the considered view that so far as the appellant alone is concerned, the ad-interim attachment order passed by the Government in G.O.Ms.No.18 dated 19.01.2004, and as was made absolute through the order under challenge in this appeal dated 27.09.2007 in Crl.M.P.No.827 of 2004 in C.C.No.24 of 2003 are liable to be set aside and the same are accordingly set aside. Accordingly, the Criminal Appeal is allowed. ___________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J 12th July, 2010 GHN Note: Crl.A.(SR)No.20418 of 2010 is numbered as Crl.A.No.841 of 2010