THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N. RAVI SHANKAR CRIMINAL PETITION No.4290 of 2011 Date: 01.07.2011 Between: L. Narasimha Swamy. ………Petitioner. And The State of A.P., rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad. ….Respondent. THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N. RAVI SHANKAR CRIMINAL PETITION No.4290 of 2011 ORDER: 1. Heard Sri G. Arun Kumar, the learned counsel for the petitioner and also the learned Additional Prosecutor. 2. The petitioner is stated to be the owner of a lorry bearing No.AP 23V 4689 and he is the 3rd accused in Crime No.132 of 2011-2012 of Nalgonda Excise Police Station. The said case is registered for an offence punishable under Section 34 (a) of the A.P Excise Act, 1968 (for short ‘the Act’). The allegation is that the Indian made foreign liquor was being unauthorisedly transported in the said lorry and the same was detected. The plea of the petitioner is that he hired out the lorry for transporting some chemicals, but his driver and cleaner, without his knowledge, transported the contraband beneath the chemicals. 3. It is true that A-1 and A-2 i.e., the driver and cleaner are shown as the accused in the case, but A-3’s name is also shown. The counsel for the petitioner is seeking the quashing of the First Information Report filed against A-3 on the ground that his complicity is nowhere mentioned in the mediators report. The mediators report is not be all and end all and the investigation is still pending and further investigation in the matter may bring to light the complicity of the petitioner or it may show that he is innocent also, but as the matter stands there are no reasons to interfere with the matter. 4. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. __________________________ JUSTICE N. RAVI SHANKAR Date: 01.07.2011. mrb