N. ARUMUGHAM, J.

This revision is directed against the order passed by the X-Metropolitan Magistrate, Egmore, Madras in M.P. No. 2300 of 1995 in C.C. 5103 of 1994, dated 19-12-1995 for want of its legality and propriety.

2. The petitioner by name Raj Kumar N. Jain is a third party and a financier extending financial help to one of the accused by name Selvam for the car bearing Registration Mark T.S.R. 2191, who along with other accused is facing charges for the offences under Ss. 147, 148, 341, 427, 302 and 506(II), Indian Penal Code. The prosecution case is that the vehicle above referred to though belongs to the said accused Selvam, he is a hirer and the owner is the petitioner under the hire-purchase agreement as evident from the endorsement relating to the hire-purchase agreement found in the registration certificate of the said vehicle and that the said vehicle was used by all the accused prior to and after the occurrence i.e. for committing the crime and for going away from the scene of the occurrence. Since the above fact was ascertained during investigation, the car was seized and produced to the judicial custody. Since the petitioner is the owner of the vehicle u