I.A. Ansari, J.

1. This is an appeal against the judgment and order dated 27-12-2002, passed by the learned ad hoc Additional Sessions Judge No. 1, Kamrup, convicting the accused-appellant Under Section 489B IPC and sentencing him to suffer simple imprisonment for seven years and to pay a fine of Rs. 5,000/- and, in default of payment of fine, to undergo simple imprisonment for a further period of six months.

2. The case against the accused-appellant, as projected at the trial, was, in brief, as follows :

On 12-03-1997, accused-appellant, Sri Krishna Kanta Das, an employee of M/s Assam Tribune Private Limited, came to the United Bank of India, Fancy Bazar Branch, for obtaining a Bank Draft and in the process of tendering the currency notes for the purpose of obtaining the draft, he tendered as many as six fake currency notes of Rs. 500/-denomination each. The cashier, at the bank, in the process of counting the said currency notes, found six of the notes as fake and brought the same, immediately, to the notice of the Branch Manager, Saradandu Bhattacharjee. On a telephonic inquiry made by the Branch Manager, M/s Assam Tribune Private Limited informed the Branch Manager that th