JUDGMENT

Chandramauli Kr. Prasad, J.

1. Appellants have preferred these appeals separately, aggrieved by the judgment and order dated 22nd January, 2008 passed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in Criminal Appeal No.686-DBA of 1997, whereby while reversing the judgment of acquittal dated 7th May, 1997 passed by the Sessions Judge, Faridkot in Sessions Case No.73 of 1994 (Sessions Trial No.71 of 1994) convicted the appellants for the offence under Section 18 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (hereinafter referred to as the `Act') and sentenced them to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of 10 years each and to pay a fine of Rs.1 lac each and in default to undergo further rigorous imprisonment for a period of one year each.

2. According to the prosecution, on 4th June, 1994 PW.3, Jagmohan Singh, Station House Officer of Police Station, Mehna along with Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police, Ranjit Singh and other police personnel were on a routine picket duty near the passage leading to the various colonies from Ajitwal. While they were on duty a white Maruti Car, bearing No.PID 6096 was seen coming from the side of village Kokri Kalan through an unmeta