law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  453.Payment to innocent purchaser of money found on
  
  accused.-
  When any person is convicted of any offence which includes, or
  
  amounts to, theft or receiving stolen property, and it is proved that any other
  
  person bought the stolen property from him without knowing or having reason to
  
  believe that the same was stolen, and that any money has on his arrest been
  
  taken out of the possession of the convicted person, the Court may, on the
  
  application of such purchaser and on the restitution of the stolen property to
  
  the person entitled to the possession thereof, order that out of such money a
  
  sum not exceeding the price paid by such purchaser be delivered to him.