PARDEEP KUMAR Vs. STATE OF HARYANA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PETITIONER Pardeep Kumar has filed this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for setting aside the order dated 10.5.2006, passed by Additional Sessions Judge, Karnal, whereby application filed by the petitioner for releasing car bearing registration No. DL-8CF-7665, which was taken into custody by the police in case FIR No. 191 dated 13.5.2005 registered at Police Station Civil Lines Karnal under Sections 376, 328, 342, 384, 506, 120-B IPC, has been dismissed on the ground that he is not the registered owner of the car.

(2.) IT is the case of the petitioner that the aforesaid car was taken into possession from one Anand Verma and was impounded in the aforesaid case on the ground that the same was used by the accused in the alleged offence. The accused in the aforesaid FIR was acquitted on 22.10.2005. Thereafter, the instant application was filed by the petitioner by alleging that he has purchased the aforesaid vehicle through the General Power of Attorney of the owner of the vehicle Shri Ghan Shyam Aggarwal. He has also placed on record the General Power of Attorney executed by Shri Ghan Shyam Aggarwal, the registered owner of the vehicle. It is the case of the petitioner that he has purchased the aforesaid car bonafidely through a dealer in Delhi and inadvertently the vehicle could not be transferred in his favour.

(3.) COUNSEL for the respondent-State only submits that the petitioner is not the registered owner, though he has admitted that no other person has claimed the aforesaid vehicle being its owner.