law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  452.Order for disposal of property at conclusion of
  
  trial.-
  (1) When an inquiry or trial in any Criminal Court is concluded,
  
  the Court may make such order as it thinks fir for the disposal, by
  
  destruction, confiscation or delivery to any person claiming to be entitled to
  
  possession thereof or otherwise, of any property or document produced before it
  
  or in its custody, or regarding which any offence appears to have been
  
  committed, or which has been used for the commission of any offence.
  (2) An order may be made under sub-section (1) for the delivery
  
  of any property to any person claiming to be entitled to the possession
  
  thereof, without any condition or on condition that he executes a bond, with or
  
  without sureties, to the satisfaction of the Court, engaging to restore such
  
  property to the Court if the order made under sub-section (1) is modified or
  
  set aside on appeal or revision.
  (3) A Court of Session may, instead of itself making an order
  
  under sub-section (1), direct the property to be delivered to the Chief
  
  Judicial Magistrate, who shall thereupon deal with it in the manner provided in
  
  sections 457, 458 and 459.
  (4) Except where the property is livestock or is subject to
  
  speedy and natural decay, or where a bond has been executed in pursuance of
  
  sub-section (2), an order made under sub-section (1) shall not be carried out
  
  for two months, or when an appeal is presented, until such appeal has been
  
  disposed of.
  (5) In this section, the term "property">includes, in
  
  the case of property regarding which an offence appears to have been committed,
  
  not only such property as has been originally in the possession or under the
  
  control of any party, but also any property into or for which the same may have
  
  been converted or exchanged, and anything acquired by such conversion or
  
  exchange, whether immediately or otherwise.