( 1 ) BOTH the appeals filed under Section 374 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, are directed against common judgment dated March 16, 1999, rendered by the learned Additional City Sessions Judge, Court No. 18, Ahmedabad, in Sessions Case No. 56 of 1998 and Sessions Case No. 57 of 1998, by which, the appellants are convicted of the offence punishable under Section 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (ndps Act for short) as well as of the offence punishable under Section 379 read with 114 of the Indian Penal Code, and sentenced to suffer R. I. for ten years and fine of Rs. 1 lakh, in default, S. I. for six months for commission of offence punishable under Section 22 of the NDPS Act, as well as R. I. for three years and fine of Rs. 3000, in default, S. I. for one month for commission of offences punishable under Section 379 read with 114 of the Indian Penal Code. It may be stated that the learned Additional City Sessions Judge has directed that substantial sentences imposed on the appellants shall run concurrently.

( 2 ) AS both the Sessions Cases were tried at one trial and disposed of by common judgment dated March 16, 1999, th