THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.9452 of 2010 ORDER: Petitioners herein are victims in R.C.No.17(A)/10-CBI, ACB, Hyderabad, and prima facie it appears that the accused Nos.1 to 12 therein, under the guise of providing employment to these persons and several others, collected huge amounts and also collected the original certificates of their education. Thereafter, on coming to know the fraud, the said crime was registered by the Inspector of Police, CBI, ACB, Hyderabad, against the accused persons and the original documents such as educational certificates of the petitioners herein and others have been seized from the accused and the matter is pending before the learned Special Judge for CBI Cases, Hyderabad. As the petitioners are unemployed youth and they require their original certificates for prosecuting further studies or for getting employment, they filed an application in S.R.No.2734 of 2010 in R.C.No.17(A) of 2010 before the Court below under Section 457 of Cr.P.C. with a prayer to return certain documents during pendency of investigation and the same stood rejected on the ground that there is no provision to order return of documents seized during pendency of investigation. Hence, they filed the present petition under Section 451 or 457 of Cr.P.C. seeking a direction to the Inspector of Police, C.B.I., ACB, Hyderabad, to return the original certificates to them which were seized in connection with R.C.No.17(A)/10-CBI, ACB, Hyderabad. The main contention of Sri T.Pradyumna Kumar Reddy, learned counsel appearing for the petitioners, is that the matter is pending trial and it takes years for completion of the trial and disposal of the same and it unnecessarily creates troubles to them provided they are without the original education certificates all these days. The contention of Sri P.Kesava Rao, the learned Special Standing Counsel for CBI, is that the said certificates are very much required during the course of trial and if the same are released in favour of the petitioners there is no possibility of getting them back at a later stage. For an unemployed youth, a certificate with regard to his educational qualification is vital document and without the same he can neither prosecute his further studies nor get an employment. Apparently, it is a case of the year 2010 and as stated by both the learned counsel that several persons are involved in this matter, this Court is of the firm view that it takes years for completion of trial and, if the petitioners are left without the educational certificates all along, they would certainly face lot of problems either in further prosecuting the studies or in getting employment. Hence, this Court exercises its inherent powers conferred under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. and directs the Court below to release the original educational certificates pertaining to the petitioners only, subject to the following conditions. 1) petitioners shall give photocopy of their respective certificate/s; 2) petitioners shall execute bond for a sum of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees twenty five thousand only) each with one surety in a like sum each; and 3) each petitioner shall give an undertaking that he will produce the original certificate/s as and when required by the Court below during the course of trial. Subject to the above observations, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. ________________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J 29th September 2010 CVRK