JUDGMENT:

The revision petitioner-petitioner-accused in Criminal M.P.

No.1370 of 2017 in Crime No.181 of 2017 of B.B. Nagar P.S., filed for return of case property, which consists of seven male calves that were seized while they were being transported in one vehicle, and registered as C.P.No.99 of 2017.

2. The learned Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Bhongir, did not agree with the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner before her that they were purchased by the revision petitioner for business purpose and to sell them for profit after some period of lapse, and that was the reason the revision petitioner purchased the calves at young age i.e., 1 or 1½ years, but did not sell them to slaughter house as alleged, and even did not believe the receipts filed in an attempt to show that they were purchased in Shandi market. The learned Magistrate observed that the record would reveal that seven calves were found in one auto and also found one Ox dead body. The learned Magistrate also observed that though, they were not transporting to slaughter house for sale, the very fact that seven calves were transported in one single Auto carrier and also transporting t