JUDGMENT :

Prithviraj K. Chavan, J.

Feeling aggrieved with the judgment of conviction dated 06/12/2014 passed by the Special Judge, NDPS Court, South Goa in Special Case (NDPS) No.6/2013 of the offences under Section 20(b) (ii)(C) of the NDPS Act, by which the appellant is sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for ten years and a fine of Rs. 1.00 lakh, in default to suffer imprisonment for one year, the present appeal has been filed.

2. Facts as emerged from the record are as follows:

The Anti Narcotic Cell, Panaji Goa on 11/04/2011 at about 17.30 hours received an information that a person having Nepali features aged between 42 to 45 years with medium built, will be coming to deliver narcotic drugs on the same day between 19.45 hours to 20.45 hours to his prospective customer near La Grace Hotel, KTC bus stand, Margao - Goa. PW7 Shitakant Nayak PSI attached to ANC Police Station reduced the information into writing and a copy of the same was sent to the Dy. S.P. ANC, PW2 Naresh Mhamal, for his information.

3. He secured presence of two pancha witnesses namely PW4 Nilesh Sawant and one Venkatesh Bijli. After appraising the pancha witnesses about the raid to be conducted and after i