JUDGMENT :

Tirthankar Ghosh, J.

The present appeal has been preferred against the judgment and sentence dated 18.02.2019 and 19.02.2019 passed by the learned Additional District and Sessions Judge, 3rd Court, Krishnagar in Sessions Trial No.3(10)/2018 arising out of Sessions Case No.274(9)2018, thereby convicting the appellants under Section 489C of the Indian Penal Code and sentencing them to suffer rigorous imprisonment for four years and to pay fine of Rs.5,000/- i.d. to suffer S.I. for two months each.

2. The genesis of the case was on the basis of a complaint which has been submitted by Prokash Kr. Guha, Sub-Inspector of Police, attached to Kotwali P.S., Nadia with the Inspector-in-Charge Kotwali Police Station, Nadia, subsequent to which, Kotwali Police Station Case No.161 dated 06.05.2018 was registered for investigation under Sections 489B/489C of the Indian Penal Code. The allegations, as was made before the Inspector-in-Charge, were to the effect that on 06.05.2018 while the informant namely, Prokash Kr. Guha, S.I. of Police was performing his evening duty, he received information that illegal procurement and transportation of fake Indian currency notes may take place near J