HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.627 of 2025

ORDER :

This Criminal Revision Case is filed challenging the order, dated 17.07.2025 passed in Criminal Appeal No.29 of 2025 in P.O.R.No.081 of 2018 by the learned Principal Sessions Judge at Mancherial (for short ‘the Sessions Court’) and consequently, to direct immediate release of the Tractor Eicher bearing No.TS-19- TA-3408 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘crime vehicle’) to the petitioner subject to reasonable conditions, this Criminal Revision Case is filed. By the impugned order, the Appeal filed by the petitioner under Section 44(2-E) of the Telangana Forest Act, 1967 (for short ‘the Act, 1967’), was dismissed.

2. Heard Mr. CH.Ravi Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner as well as Mr. M.Ramachandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent-State. Perused the record.

3. The petitioner, who is the registered owner of the crime vehicle, is accused of attempting to encroach 3.52 Ha of the forest land, leading to the registration of a case in P.O.R.No.081 of 2018 and detention of the crime vehicle. Despite the petitioner’s objections, respondent No.3 confiscated the crime vehicle on 0