THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.7703 OF 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner – accused No.1 seeking to set aside the order dated 01.04.2025 passed in Crl.M.P.No.617 of 2025 in Crime No.35 of 2019 by the learned VII Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate at Hyderabad (for short ‘the trial Court’) and return the cash alleged to have been seized from accused No.1.

2. Heard the submissions of Sri Mohammed Abdul Kalam Siddiqui, learned counsel for the petitioner and Smt.Shalini Shekshana, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1 – State.

3. The learned petitioner counsel submits that the proceedings against accused No.1 were quashed by a Bench of this Court vide orders dated 05.09.2024 in Criminal Petition No.5651 of 2024. The offences alleged against the petitioner under Sections 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the Indian Penal Code, 12(1)(B) of Passport Act, 1967, were quashed by this Court. Pursuant to the said quash orders, the petitioner has filed a petition under Section 451 read with Section 457 of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 before the trial Court for return of property i.e. net cash of Rs.2,97,000/-, two cell phone