Placing reliance on the evidence adduced, the trial Court recorded companyviction and imposed sentence as numbered supra.
Each was found guilty and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for 3 years and to pay a fine of Rs.2,000/ with default stipulation by the learned Special Judge NDPS Bhopal.
P 23 on 12.4.2001 and the report of the laboratory is Exh.
P 28, dated 1.4.2001.
Likewise, on the search of the bag of appellant number2 Kalicharan he found 17 kilograms of Ganja therein, which was also seized.
Background facts as projected by the prosecution during trial are as follows On 31.3.2001, while Inspector Ajay Singh Bisen PW 10 was on duty at G.R.P. Police Station, Bhopal, he received an information that two persons had got down from Madhya Pradesh Express and were waiting at platform No.2 for Coolie with suitcases and bags in which they were carrying companytraband article Ganja .
PW 10 prepared the seizure memos Exh.
Appeal before the High Court did number bring any relief.
He found the appellants standing with the suitcases and bags.
On search of the suitcase of appellant number1 Rajendra, he found 23 kilograms of Ganja therein, which was seized.
The companyviction and sentence were maintained by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur by the impugned judgment.
P 5 and P 8 respectively .
The sample Panchnama is Exh.
This information was recorded by him Ex.
Barsaiya PW 3 was posted as Malkhana Moharrir in the Police Station, Government Railway Police, Bhopal and on 31.3.2001, the seized Ganja and the sample packets along with the suitcase and bag which were seized from the appellants were deposited by him in the Malkhana in a sealed companydition.
PW 10 sent the full report of the search and seizure to the senior railway police as per Exh.
PW 10 had sent the sealed samples with specimen of seal to the Forensic Science Laboratory, Sagar vide Exh.
The seized articles were kept in sealed companydition in the Malkhana.
P 25 and thereafter, he proceeded with his staff to the place as per the information received by him.
He took samples of 25 grams each and sealed the same.
