The Trial Court sentenced each of the appellants to undergo imprisonment for one year and pay a fine of Rs.1,000/ with default stipulation.
They were found to be in possession of 180 detonators.
By judgment and order dated 12.10.1998 of the Trial Court, the accused were acquitted of the offence punishable under Section 5 of the TADA.
However, they were companyvicted for the offence punishable under Section 9 B i b of the Act and were sentenced as aforesaid.
In a nutshell the background facts are as follows On 20.4.1988, the appellants came to Surat from Indore and were intercepted by the police at the bus stand.
They were charge sheeted for the offence punishable under Sections 9 B i b of the Act and Section 5 of the Terrorists Disruptive Activities Prevention Act, 1985 in short the TADA .
In the appeal before the High Court stand of the appellants was that without prior sanction of the Central Government for prosecution the proceedings were illegal.
A criminal case number4 of 1990 was registered against the appellants accused.
