JUDGMENT :

1. Heard the parties.

2. This criminal revision is directed against the judgment dated 04.08.2000 in Criminal Appeal No.129 of 1994 by which the learned Additional Sessions Judge-II, Bokaro at Chas has dismissed the appeal filed by the revision petitioner along with co-convict- Akbar @ Ali Immam Ansari.

3. It is stated that the revision petitioner has been convicted only for the offence punishable under Section 379 of India Penal Code and sentenced him to undergo R.I. for three years, by the trial court, being the First Assistant Sessions Judge, Bokaro. This criminal revision has been filed only on behalf of the convict- Chhotu @ Salimuddin Ansari.

4. The brief facts of the case is that on 17.12.85 when the informant who was a constable of C.I.S.F. saw two persons in a black colour Yezdi motorcycle coming out through gate No.V of Bokaro Steel Plant with great speed, the informant out of suspicion signalled the motorcycle to stop but the motorcycle pushed the informant and went out of the gate but because of the imbalance of the motorcycle, two pieces of copper weighing 50 kg each which the pillion rider had concealed in his shawl, fell down on the ground. The informant c