Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17526 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajendra Tanti @ Rajendra Sharma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 19-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation against the petitioner is that he was asked to deposit Rs.4,25,000/- in the bank being an employee of the cloth merchant but he fled away but subsequently Rs.1,56,000/- was recovered from his house. This Court is not inclined to interfere only because the case was instituted in 2002. Let learned court below consider the regular bail prayer of the petitioner without being prejudiced by this order if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17526 of 2012 (2) dt.19-06-2012 2/2 in connection with Jagdishpur P.S. Case No. 69 of 2002 pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Bhagalpur. 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.