Payment to innocent purchaser of money found on accused.

What this section does

Where a person is convicted of theft or receiving stolen property and an innocent purchaser bought the stolen property without knowledge of the theft, the Court may, on application by such purchaser and on restitution of the stolen property, order payment to the purchaser of a sum not exceeding the price paid by him out of money recovered from the convicted person at arrest. Such order must be applied for and made within six months.

AI-generated plain-language summary. For the binding statutory text, see India Code (official).

Procedure at a glance

Key actors

Court · Convicted person · Innocent purchaser · Person entitled to possession of stolen property

Time limit

Payment to innocent purchaser must be ordered within six months from the date of such order

Derived from CrPC s.453.