Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27819 of 2012 ====================================================== Pappu Singh @ Dhiraj Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. Ten empty and seven filled domestic gas cylinders were found being carried in a white colour maruti car whereas seventeen gas cylinders of Indane company were seized from the house of Jai Kishore Prasad and nine cylinders were seized from another maruti car when Arun Saw was arrested who disclosed that gas cylinders have been supplied by this petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the recovery is not from the possession of the petitioner and the accusation levelled against the petitioner does not constitute a case under Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act and statement has been made in para 16 of the petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27819 of 2012 (2) dt.07-08-2012 2/2 petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Masaurhi, Patna in connection with Masaurhi P.S. Case No. 152 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.