Lakkimsetty Aruna v. The State Of A.P.,

HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Criminal Revision Case No.1132 of 2015 ORDER:

This revision is preferred challenging the judgment dated 26-09-2014 in Criminal Appeal No.252 of 2014 on the file of the Sessions Judge, Guntur, wherein and whereby the learned Sessions Judge partly allowed the appeal filed by the petitioner by reducing the penalty imposed, from the confiscation of 50% of the seized stocks to that of 25% of the seized stocks.

The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is not the owner of the stocks concerned, but the said stocks belong to the farmers who are relatives and neighboring farmers in the village and merely storing the stocks in the premises of the petitioner does not amount to commercial purpose.

Having heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the Public Prosecutor and after perusing the material available on record, this Court is of the considered view that the confiscation of 10% of the seized stocks would be appropriate.

Accordingly, the Criminal Revision Case is disposed of modifying the order of penalty from 25%

confiscation of stocks to that of 10% confiscation of stocks.

Miscellaneous petitions filed in this revision, if any, shall stand closed.

___________________ RAJA ELANGO, J.

03rd July, 2015 skmr