JUDGMENT - R.K. BATTA, J.:---All these revision applications arise out of the trial of the applicants in Customs Criminal Case No. 48/89/A, which was tried by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Panaji. The applicants alongwith others were tried for offences under section 135(1)(i) of the Customs Act, 1962.

2. The prosecution case, in brief is that 207 silver ingots weighing approximately 30 kgs. valued at Rs. 4,22,48,225/- were clandestinely brought into Goa in an Arab Dhow and the same were to be transported in a trawler Gramdev Navdurga (hereinafter referred to as "the said trawler"), belonging to accused No. 4, who is the applicant in Criminal Revision Application No. 7/2000. The applicant in Criminal Revision Application No. 4/2000 was accused No. 8 before the trial Court and he was found on the Arab Dhow, which had clandestinely brought into Goa, India the said 207 silver ingots. The applicants in Criminal Revision Applications No. 5 and 6/2000, were accused Nos. 3 and 1 respectively, on the said trawler, which was to transport the said ingots clandestinely brought into Goa, India. The learned chief Judicial Magistrate held all the applicants guilty of the charge. Accused No. 2 who

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