Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13353 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ashok Mahto 2. Sunil Kumar 3. Laxmikant Singh 4. Rupesh Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 21-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 33 of the Forest Act. Three tractors loaded with the wooden logs were seized. One of the log was claimed by petitioner no. 4 Rupesh Kumar. He claimed that it was purchased by him from one Dukhan Ram and other petitioners are the owner of the tractor and trailer and the driver of the tractor. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that it has not come during investigation that Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13353 of 2012 (3) dt.21-06-2012 2/2 the logs were taken from the forest and the seized logs were of the Simal. Considering the nature of accusation and the recovery, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Hathauri P.S. Case No. 20 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.