Tapash Mookherjee, J.

The present appeals are directed against the judgment and order of conviction and sentence dated 26.05.2008 and 27.05.2008 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-cum-Judge Special Court under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, hereinafter described in short as N.D.P.S. Act. Cooch Behar in G.R. Case No. 148 of 2007, convicting thereby the Appellants under Section 20(b) of the N.D.P.S. Act.

2. The facts behind, stated briefly, are as follows:-

3. On 10.04.2007, S.I. Sanjay Dutta, Officer-in-Charge of Tufanganj P.S. District Cooch Behar received a secret information from his source that the present Appellants of Arampur under Balarampur-I under P.S. Tufanganj, Dist.- Cooch Behar, were likely to carry huge quantum of `Ganja' to the house of one Dilip Das at Sansan Road, village Kamat Fulbari (Dakshin) for the purpose of trading. S.I., Dutta immediately recorded the fact in the General Diary of the Police Station and thereafter he along with other police personnel rushed to the aforesaid place and kept the place under strict vigil and during such watch found the Appellants entering the house of one Dilip Das. S.I., Dutta, therefore, fol