JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Criminal Revision Case is filed under Section 397 r/w. 409 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to call for the records in Crl.MP.No.3043 of 2019 on the file of Principal Sessions Judge, Tiruvarur and set aside the same subsequently grant interim custody of vehicle Mahendra Tractor bearing Regn.No.TN 49 J 3054 with unnumbered Tipper to the petitioner.)

1. This Criminal Revision Case has been filed against the dismissal of the petition filed by the petitioner in Crl.MP.No.3043 of 2019 on the file of the Principal Sessions Judge, Tiruvarur dated 29.01.2020.

2. The respondent herein has seized a Mahendra Tractor bearing Regn.No.TN 49 J 3054 with unnumbered Tipper as river sand has been illegally transported through the said vehicle and also registered an FIR on 20.10.2019 in Cr.No.385 of 2019 under Sections 379 and 21(1) of IPC.

3. The petitioner herein has filed a petition under Sections 457 and 451 of Cr.P.C., before the Principal Sessions Judge, Tiruvarur {Special Court constituted under Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957} seeking interim custody. The learned Principal Sessions Judge, Tiruvarur, has taken the said petition on file as Crl.MP.No.3043