Citation : 2025 Latest Caselaw 5312 Tel
Judgement Date : 4 September, 2025
THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE T. MADHAVI DEVI
WRIT PETITION No.26594 of 2025
ORDER:
The Writ Petition is filed seeking the following relief:
"...to issue an appropriate Writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents No. 3 and 4 in registering the forest crime No. 37/ORNarni/2024-25, Dated 22.06.2025 by seizing the John Deere Tractor bearing No. AP15AW6471 as illegal, null, void, arbitrary and consequentially direct the respondents to release the above vehicle to the petitioner and to pass..."
2. With the consent of both the parties, this Writ Petition is
taken up for disposal at the stage of admission.
3. Heard Sri K. Durga Prasad, learned counsel for the
petitioner, learned Government Pleader for Forests appearing for
respondents No.1 to 4 and perused the entire material on record.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the
subject matter of this Writ Petition is squarely covered by the TMDJ wp_26594_2025
judgment dated 22.08.2023 passed by this Court in W.A.No.838 of
2023.
5. Learned Government Pleader for Forests has not disputed
the above submission made by the learned counsel for the
petitioner.
6. In view of the above, for the reasons alike in the said
judgment, this Writ Petition is disposed of as follows:
1. The petitioner shall furnish a bond for a sum of
Rs.50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand only) with two sureties
for a likesum each to the satisfaction of the concerned
respondent under whose custody the vehicle is lying.
2. The petitioner, in addition, shall file an affidavit before the
said Officer stating that he shall not alienate, encumber or
transfer, in any manner, the tractor i.e., John Deere Tractor
bearing No. AP15AW6471.
3. The aforesaid affidavit shall be filed within a period of
four weeks from today.
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4. The petitioner shall also furnish an undertaking that he
shall produce the aforesaid Tractor as and when directed
by the respondent concerned.
There shall be no order as to costs.
Miscellaneous applications, if any, pending in this Writ
Petition, shall stand closed.
___________________________ JUSTICE T. MADHAVI DEVI Date: 04.09.2025 NOTE: Issue C.C. by 08.09.2025 B/o.PRN
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