THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE K. SUJANA CRIMINAL PETITION No.4300 of 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed praying this Court to quash the docket order dated 22.01.2025 passed in Crl.MP.No.90 of 2025 in Crime No.214 of 2024 on the file of the Junior Civil Judge cum Judicial Magistrate of First Class, at Vemulawada, and to direct to release the tractor and trailer bearing Nos.TS23 4809 and TS23 4810 respectively.

2. The brief facts of the case are that on 06.12.2024 the tractor and trailer of petitioner (bearing numbers TS234809 and TS234810) were seized by the 2^nd respondent - police. The said seizure occurred when the driver, namely, Mahesh, was transporting sand without a transit pass, and allegedly without the knowledge of the petitioner. The petitioner had hired Mahesh for agricultural purposes, and that he had apparently deviated from the agreed-upon use of the vehicle. Following the seizure, a case vide Crime No. 214 of 2024 was registered against the petitioner. However, it is averred that despite best efforts of petitioner to explain the situation to the authorities and request for release of the vehicles, the 2^nd respondent - police refused to release the same. That bein