ORDER

10.05.2022 This is an application under Section 482 of the Cr.P.C. preferred by the State in which the Judgment and Order dated 07.03.2022 passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Hailakandi in Criminal Revision No. 12/2022 has been put to challenge. The aforesaid order arises out of an order dated 14.01.2022 passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Hailakandi in Lala P.S. Case No. 846/2021 under Sections

379/411 of the IPC.

For better appreciation of the issue involved, the facts of the case may be stated in brief.

On 24.12.2021, a case was registered before the Lala Police Station, being Lala P.S. Case No. 846/2021 regarding storage and transportation of huge quantity of Burmese Betel Nuts which were suspected to be stolen. In the said search conducted, 394 nos. of gunny bags containing 20,020 Kilograms of the Burmese Betel Nuts was seized vide seizure list dated 22.12.2021.

The formal F.I.R. was lodged on 24.12.2021. While the investigation was going on, the respondent had filed a zimma petition for the commodities in which the learned Magistrate had called for a report which was accordingly submitted. Thereafter, vide order dated 14.01.2022, the zimma petition was a