THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.14134 OF 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed seeking to set aside the order, dated 23.10.2025, passed in Crl.M.P.No.79 of 2025 in S.C.No.295 of 2021 by the learned Senior Civil Judge-cum-Assistant Sessions Judge, Metpalli, whereby, the petition filed by the petitioners seeking return of their original passports, was dismissed.

2. Heard Sri Thelu Pratap, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the trial Court has passed an erroneous order by dismissing the petition seeking release of the passports of the petitioners and that the trial Court cannot withhold their passports. He further submitted that the petitioners were acquitted in S.C.No.295 of 2021, following which they have filed the present petition before the trial Court, under Rule 219 of the Criminal Rules of Practice (for short, ‘the Rules’), seeking return of their original passports bearing Nos.S9709820 and U6152658, and the said petition was dismissed by the trial Court, which is not just and proper. Once the case