PRAKASHBHAI Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Rule returnable forthwith. Learned APP waives service of notice of rule for and on behalf of respondent-State.

(2.) The petitioner has preferred this petition, seeking to invoke extraordinary jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 and supervisory jurisdiction under Article 227 of the Constitution of India so also inherent powers of this Court under Sec. 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 with a prayer to release Muddamal Vehicle i.e. TVS JUPITER GRANDE bearing RTO registration No. GJ-27-CN-6534.

(3.) The case of the prosecution personnels were on patrolling, is that while the police they received a secret information of the vehicle in question carrying liquor and when police authorities intercepted the same, on carrying out the search of the said vehicle, its driver was found carrying liquor without any pass or permit. Therefore, an FIR being C.R. No. 11191025211485 of 2021 came to be lodged with Kagdapith Police Station, Dist: Ahmedabad City for the offence punishable under the Prohibition Act.