APHC010657472025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3396] MONDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 12627/2025 Between: 1. PEKETI GANGA PRASAD,, S/O. SATYANARAYANA AGED 38 YEARS, OCC. VEHICLE OWNER, R/O. H.NO.2-48, KRISHNUNIPALEM VILLAGE, GOKAVARAM MANDAL, KAKINADA DISTRICT. EAST GODAVARI JUDICIAL DISTRICT. ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, Rep. by the Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., at Amaravati. ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. ANASURI ESWAR SAI Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR 2 THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 12627/2025 ORDER: The instant Criminal Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘Cr.P.C)/under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) has been filed by the petitioner, seeking to release the ASHOK LEYLAND Van, Vehicle No.AP- 03-TE-7925 which was seized on 10.08.2025 in connection to the Crime No.185 of 2025 on the file of Kasimkota Police Station, Anakapalli District. 2. Heard Sri Anasuri Eswar Sai, learned Counsel for the petitioner and Mrs.K.Priyanka Lakshmi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor on behalf of the State. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the petition may be disposed of giving liberty to the petitioner to pursue his matter before the concerned Magistrate Court for return of his vehicle relating to Crime No.185 of 2025 on the file of Kasimkota Police Station, Anakapalli District registered for the offences punishable under Sections 106(1), 125(a) of BNS and Section 196 of M.V.Act. 4. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor would submit that the Court may pass appropriate Orders. 5. Recording the same, this Criminal Petition is disposed of. However, the petitioner is at liberty to pursue his remedies before the concerned Magistrate Court. 3 As a sequel thereto, miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed. _________________________________________ Dr. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA Date: 08.12.2025. UPS 4 HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 12627/2025 Dated.08.12.2025 UPS 258