JUDGMENT

Thomas J-Out of twelve accused persons arraigned before a Designated Court in Delhi, ten were convicted of different offences under Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act 1987 (for short 'TADA'). They are the appellants before us. Some of them were found to be members of a terrorist’s gang called Davood Ibrahim Group. Three persons, including a former Union Minister of State for Power (Kalpnat Rai) were found to have harboured hardcorl terrorists, besides fastening such a finding with A12 (Mis East West Travel and Trade Links Ltd.). All of them except the company were sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment (three of them to life imprisonment) and fine ranging from Rupees ten lakhs downwards. A-12, company was sentenced to a whopping fine of Rs. fifty lakhs.

2. The incipient backdrop with events which culminated in the nabbing of five accused (A1-Subhash Singh, Thakur; A2 Jaynendra Thakur @ Bhai Thakur; A3-Shyam Kishore Garikapti; A4-Chanderkant Patill and A5-Paresh Mohan Desai) has been delineated by the prosecution by referring to three different incidents which took place during the nccent stages. The first was an incident which raappened on 30.4.1991 w