JUDGMENT

This Writ Petition (C) is filed seeking the following reliefs:

" i) Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writs, orders or directions commanding the respondents to release/return the goods carriage/lorry bearing registration No.KL-BT-5198 seized by the 3^rd respondent unconditionally to the petitioner, forthwith;

ii) Declare that the seizure of the vehicle owned by the petitioner as per Exhibit P1 mahzar by the 3^rd respondent is perse illegal;

iii) Dispense with the filing of English translation of Vernacular documents;

iv) Grant such other reliefs as this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper in the circumstances of the case."

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2. The petitioner is the registered owner of a goods carriage/lorry bearing registration No.KL-BT-5198. The vehicle was hired by the owners of a steel factory by the name ‘Primo Flex’, situated at Feroke in Kozhikkode District, on 06.03.2026 is the submission. According to the petitioner, the vehicle was toppled, and the 3^rd respondent came and seized the vehicle on the allegation that