S.M. DAUD, J. :---This revision takes exception to the conviction and sentences recorded against the petitioners for their allegedly committing offences punishable under various sections of the Customs Act, 1962 and section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code.

2. The petitioners before me were arraigned along with some others as accused Nos. 2, 3, and 4. The case of the complainant-respondent No. 1 who is an Assistant Director attached to

the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, was, that the Directorate had received a tip that Indian nationals travelling from Singapore to Dubai via Bombay and vice-versa by flights of the Singapore Air Lines (SAL) were indulging in smuggling of gold of foreign origin into the country. In this object the Officers of the SAL were being utilised by the smugglers. A team of Officers of the DRI kept a watch at the Santacruz Airport on the night in between 5th and 6th of September, 1979. Flight No. SQ-73 landed at the Airport a little after midnight on 6th of September, 1979 and the DRI Officers along with panchas boarded the aircraft. The suspects who were accused Nos. 1,2, and 3 were occupying adjacently situated seats in a rear row of the craft. Fac