Sujith Traders, v. The State Of Telangana,

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Crl.R.C.No.1465 of 2015

ORDER

Petitioner preferred the present Criminal Revision Case by invoking the provisions under Sections 397 and 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure being aggrieved by the order dated 20.07.2015 passed in Crl.M.P.No.178 of 2015 in P.R.No.280 of 2015-16 by the learned Special Judicial Magistrate of First Class for Prohibition and Excise Cases at Warangal.

2. Heard and perused.

3.

When the petitioner approached the trial Court with the impugned application under Section 457 Cr.P.C. seeking release of 17000 kgs of black jaggery seized in Cr.No.280 of 2015 of Prohibition and Excise Station, Warangal (Rural), the learned Magistrate vide impugned order returned the same on the ground that the trial Court has no jurisdiction to entertain the impugned application.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the value of the seized stocks will be diminished if they are kept idle in the premises of Prohibition & Excise Station.

5.

Admittedly, black jaggery seized from the possession of the petitioner in the above referred crime is not a prohibited article under any law and its possession is also not barred by the provisions of any Statute.

6. Considering the facts and circumstances, the seized 17000 kgs of black jaggery in the above referred crime shall be entrusted to the interim custody of the petitioner on petitioner's execution of a personal bond for Rs.3,00,000/- (Rupees Three Lakhs only) to the satisfaction of the trial Court.

7. Accordingly, the Criminal Revision Case is allowed. 8.

Miscellaneous petitions pending in this revision, if any, shall

stand closed.

______________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO 29th July, 2015 skmr