JUDGMENT

V.S. Aggarwal, J. - This is an appeal filed by Paramjit Singh and Bukkan Singh appellants directed against the judgment and the order of sentence passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Barnala dated 27-10-1995. By virtue of the impugned judgment,' the learned trial court held the appellants guilty of the offence punishable under Section 15 of the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (hereinafter described as 'the Act'). By the subsequent findings of sentence, each of the appellant was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and 1,0 pay a fine of Rs. one lac. In default of payment of fine, they were to undergo further rigorous imprisonment for 2-1/2 years.

2. The relevant facts of the prosecution case are that on 31-7-1991 Officer-in-charge Police Station Barna1a accompanied by ASI Rabi Singh and HC Malgar Singh with other police offlcia1s held a picket on the turning of Link Road Khudi Khurd. An Eicher tractor of red colour without number plate a10ngwith the trolly was seen coming from the side of village Tapa. Officer-in-charge signalled the tractor to stop. Two persons from the trolly jumped and made good their escape. After the tr