HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J.SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.2309 of 2010 Date: 12.02.2026 Between:

Kona Venkateswar Rao ...Petitioner/Accused AND The State of A.P. rep. by its Public Prosecutor and another.

...Respondents : O R D E R :

This Criminal Revision Case has been filed by the petitioner/accused invoking the provisions of Sections 397 and 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’) aggrieved by the orders dated 08.10.2010 passed by the learned Principal Sessions Judge, Khammam, in Criminal Appeal No.117 of 2009 confirming the order dated 06.10.2009 in M.C. No.94 of 2009, passed by the District Collector, Khammam, whereby and where under the stocks belonging to the petitioner were confiscated in exercise of powers under Section 6-A of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (for short ‘the E.C. Act’).

2. Brief facts of the case:

That on receipt of reliable information that the petitioner was doing clandestine business in rice without delivering Mill levy to the FCI and thereby getting illegal profits, the complainant along with the Deputy Tahsildar (CS), Khammam (Rural), UDRI (ML), Khammam and mediators