Judgment

Nanavati, J.-The appellant has been convicted under Sections 20(b)(ii) and 22 of the NDPS Act by the Court of the Special Judge, Thane in Sessions Case No. 633/90. The trial Court sentenced him to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 12 years and to pay a fine of rupees two lakhs. The appellant challenged his conviction and sentence by preferring Criminal Appeal No. 643/95 to the High Court of Bombay. The High Court confirmed the conviction and also the order of sentence. It dismissed the appeal. Aggriev­ed by the judgment and order passed by the High Court the appellant has filed this appeal.

2. What has been found against the appellant is that he was manufac­turing mandrax tablets in his factory. When the officers of the Narcot­ics Control Bureau raided his factory on 23.8.1990 methaqualone powder weighing 492 kgs, mandrax tablets weighing 22.500 gms and 1.450 kgs hashish were found from the factory. Before the trial Court and also before the High Court the contentions of the appellant were that Chemical Examiner’s reports Exhibit 61 to 67 were not admissible in evidence as they did not contain any data regarding analysis, the panchnamas were also not admissible as the not