Indu Prabha Singh, J.

1. The sole appellant has been convicted u/s. 20(b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and has been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and a fine of Rs. 1,00,000.00 u/s. 20(b)(ii) of the Nartotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Act (in short the Act). In dafault of payment of fine to undergo simple imprisonment for three years. He has been further sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for three years and a fine of Rs. 10,000.00 u/s. 20(b)(i) of the Act. In default of payment of fine to undergo simple imprisonment for a period of one year. Both the sentences were ordered to run concurrently.

2. The prosecution case, in brief, is that the informant, Ramnath Singh (P.W.I) who was posted as A.S.I. Mufassil P.S. has stated that he proceeded for raid on 6-1-1997 at 7 A.M. along with armed force consisting of Havildar Nandlal Urao, Constable Narendra Kumar Singh and constable Ramakant Manjhi. The informant along with the police force reached Khairatiya village at about 5 A.M. and received secret information that the appellant Satyendra Pandey who is a member of the gang of note-doubling, has kept illegal Ganja and