JUDGMENT

1. This Criminal Revision Case is preferred against the concurrent judgments of conviction and sentence passed against the petitioners/A.1 and A.2 for the offences punishable under Sec. 7 (A) r/w 8 (e) of A.P. Prohibition Act, 1995 in C.C.No.308 of 2006, which was confirmed in Criminal Appeal No.40 of 2007 dtd. 22/7/2008, wherein the petitioners are sentenced to undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for a period of one year and to pay a fine of Rs.10, 000.00, in default to suffer rigorous imprisonment for a further period of three months.

2. The case of the prosecution in nutshell is that on 23/6/2006 on information about illegal transportation of arrack sachets across the border of Karnataka State, the Inspector of Prohibition and Excise, Yemmiganur, along with police officials and excise staff proceeded to the road leading from Yemmiganur to Malapalli village i.e., near L.L.C. Canal Culvert, and found the accused along with three plastic sacks containing 200 arrack sachets of 100ml each.

3. The Excise Inspector for the purpose of analysis collected samples under Mos. 1 to 3. The remaining sacks were seized under the PanchanaEX.P.1., basing on which, a crime was registered under E