Bathini Ajay Kumar v. The State Of Telangana

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE CHALLA KODANDA RAM W.P.NOS.8165 AND 8179 OF 2019 COMMON ORDER Aggrieved by the action of the respondents, in seizing the vehicles of the petitioners, bearing Nos. TS 02UC 1112 & TS 02UB 2552 and TS 24T 3286 respectively, the present writ petitions have been filed. When the matter is taken up for hearing, learned counsel for the petitioners and the Government Pleaders for Mines and Geology, Home and Revenue, submitted that the issued involved in the present writ petitions, is squarely covered by the order of this court in W.P.No.34062 of 2018 dated 20.09.2018.

Relevant portion of the aforesaid order reads as under: "Therefore, for reasons alike, this writ petition is also disposed of with the following directions:

The petitioner is at liberty to approach, either, the learned Magistrate before whom the vehicle was said to have been produced and file application as per the procedure established by law and seek release of the vehicle by bringing to the notice of the court the policy decision taken by the Government and the terms of the G.O.Ms.No.15,dated 19.02.2015, if the petitioner so desires; or in the alternative he may make a request to the 2nd respondent by filing appropriate application for release of the vehicle; and if any such application is filed before the 2nd respondent, the 2nd respondent is at liberty to pass appropriate orders as per terms of G.O.Ms.No.15, dated 19.02.2015, after examining the competence and jurisdiction to release the vehicle, which was said to have been produced before the Court concerned.

It is needless to state that the application, if any, filed by the petitioner before either the court or the 2nd respondent shall be disposed of on the same day in the interest of justice." Following the aforesaid order and for the reasons stated therein, these writ petitions are also disposed of in terms thereof. Interlocutory applications pending, if any, shall stand closed. No order as to costs.

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