( 1 ) THIS is a reference under Section 307 of the Code of Criminal Procedure by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, 3rd Court, 24-Parganas, upon a disagreement with a verdict of the jury who found two accused persons guilty of various offences concerning forged Pakistani notes. One of the accused, Anil Ranjan Dutta 'alias' Moni, was unanimously found guilty of charges under Section 120b, read with Sections 489b and 489c of the Indian Penal Code. He was also found guilty of specific charges under Sections 489b and 489c of the same Code. The other accused person, Rajendra Nath Jain, was found guilty of the same conspiracy charge and also of a charge under Section 489b. In his case also the verdict of the jury was unanimous. The learned Judge, however, was of opinion that the verdict was "unreasonable, unwarranted, perverse and against the weight of evidence", and accordingly he referred the case to this Court with the recommendation that the accused might be acquitted of all the charges framed against them.

( 2 ) THE prosecution case, in brief, was that on receipt of certain information from a secret agent that the accused Anil Ranjan Dutta was concerned in tra