JUDGMENT

Pritpal Singh, J.-This appeal has been filed by Dalip Singh against the judgment of the Additional Sessions Judge. Amritsar. dated October 24, 19153, by which he was convicted under section 5 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908, (hereinafter called 'the Act') and was sentenced to undergo four years' rigorous imprisonment.

2. The prosecution case is that on December 23, 1981, Sub-Inspector Pritam Dase of the C.I.A. Staff, Ajnala, received a secret information that the appellant was in possession of 22 country-made bombs which are used for pig-hunting. On the receipt of this information he sent a ruqa to the Police Station on the basis of which a case under sections 4 and 5 of the Act was registered against the appellant. The Sub-Inspector along with Assistant Sub-Inspector Tehal Singh and some other police officials raided the house of the appellant in village punge. Diwan Chand, who is working as a sweeper in the C.I.A. Staff, was also in the raiding party. When the party entered the house. of the appellant to make a search the latter tried to slip away with a bag in his hand. He was apprehended and from the bag 22 bombs were recovered.

3. The prosecution case was suppor