Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5977 of 2012 ====================================================== Gopi Gaiswal .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-03-2012 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 47(a), 48, 54, 55 and 57 of the Excise Act. 160 cartoons of beer bottles were recovered from the house of Chain Singh but it is alleged that the house was let out to this petitioner and one Manoj Sah. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that from Annexure-2 it appears that Chain Singh gave the premises on rent to one Jairam Sah and not to this petitioner, furthermore, the malicious attitude of the informant appears from Annexure-5 that on 22.09.2011 the petitioner lodged a complaint against the informant being Misc. Case No. 833/11 whereby the informant was threatening the petitioner not to depose in Complaint case No. 416C of 2007 in which date was fixed on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5977 of 2012 (2) dt.05-03-2012 2 / 2 2 27.09.2011 when the present case was lodged on 23.09.2010. The recovery was made on 22.09.2011 when the prosecution report has been transmitted to court below on 26.09.2011 after four days of the seizure. It is orally submitted by learned Sr. counsel for the petitioner that in all the six cases as mentioned in the impugned order, the petitioner has been acquitted and at present the petitioner is not involved in any other case. Considering the fact that actually seizure has not been made from the petitioner and there is nothing on record to suggest that the petitioner was hiring the place in question. let the above named petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event 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, Bikram Ganj in connection with Natwar P.S. Case No. 59 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.