RAM DUTT SINGH Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS application under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, has been filed for issuance of direction for quashing the order dated 30.6.2003 passed in Criminal Revision No. 149 of 2001 whereby and where under the learned First Additional Sessions Judge, Jamshedpur dismissed the revision holding that the order is interlocutory one.

(2.) FACTS leading to filing of this application are that the petitioner is a registered owner of the truck bearing registration No. OR -05E -9029. A complaint case being C/1 case No. 147 of 2001 was registered on the basis of the complaint petition filed by the petitioner -complainant for committing dacoity of the truck aforesaid along with cash amount of Rs. 30,000/ - kept inside of box on the said truck and after S.A. and inquiry, cognizance in the case was taken under Section 379, IPC against the accused Sikandar and Pappu Sardar. During the pendency of the said case C/l 147 of 2001, the Telco P.S. seized the aforesaid truck on the petition filed by the complainant -petitioner Ram Dutt Singh. Thereafter the petitioner filed a petition in the Court below for release of the truck in his favour.

(3.) THE sole contention of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner is a registered owner of the vehicle aforesaid and he had purchased the vehicle on hire purchase agreement and had paid the entire instalments.