Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19805 of 2012 ====================================================== Mukesh Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 05-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of seizure of a stolen vehicle having the registration of a truck when subsequently the petition for release of the vehicle was filed on behalf of the petitioner. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioner that one Moti Khan forged the signature of the petitioner and filed petition when the petitioner filed complaint against Moti Khan. It is further submitted that petitioner is not named in the FIR. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19805 of 2012 (2) dt.05-07-2012 2/2 Considering the fact that case was instituted in 2007, this Court is not inclined to interfere. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner without being prejudiced by this order of this Court, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Alamganj P.S. Case No. 121 of 2007 pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna City. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) . .

Applicable IPC Section: 414

Statute Text:
Section 414 of the Indian Penal Code. Assisting in concealment or disposal of stolen property, knowing it to be stolen. Whoever voluntarily assists in concealing or disposing of or making away with property which he knows or has reason to believe to be stolen property, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.