JUDGMENT :

REVATI MOHITE DERE, J.

1. By these appeals, the appellants have impugned the judgment and order dated 30th December 2014, passed by learned NDPS Special Judge, City Civil and Sessions Court, Greater Bombay, in NDPS Special Case No. 148 of 2010, convicting and sentencing them, as under:-

“for the offence punishable under Sections 8(c), 20(b)(ii)(c) r/w 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 15 years and to pay fine of Rs. 1 lakh each, in default of payment of fine, to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 1 year.

for the offence punishable under Sections 28 r/w 8(c) and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 15 years and to pay fine of Rs. 1 lakh each, in default of payment of fine, to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 1 year.

Both the aforesaid sentences were directed to run concurrently and sentence in default of fine was directed to run consecutively.”

2. A few facts as are necessary to decide the aforesaid appeals, are as under:-

On 8th May 2010, specific information was received by PW-1 Sanjay Kumar Sinha, Intelligence Officer, that “one Gurmeet Singh, aged 24