A sub-Inspector of police, Criminal Investigation Department (for short, 'CID'), Assam, lodged, on 01.12.2009, a First Information Report with the Officer-in-Charge, CID Police Station, Assam, alleging, inter alia, thus: Acting on a secret information, the informant, along with his team of officials, on 30.11.2009, at 2.40 p.m., conducted search of a night super bus parked at Lalong Gaon, Lokhra, near National Highway 37, in presence of its driver, Lairenlakpam Thoiba Singh, its handyman, Azmeer Hussain, and some witnesses. On the search, so conducted, 31,298 (thirty-one thousand two hundred and ninety-eight) numbers of Spasmo Proxyvon capsules were found kept concealed in two secret chambers specially made inside the bus. The said capsules were accordingly seized and, on a query made by the informant, the driver and handyman failed to produce any document authorizing them to carry the said capsules.

2. Based on the information, so lodged, CID Police Station Case No. 31/2009 under Sections 380/411 IPC read with Section 22(c)/29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic substances Act (in short, 'the NDPS Act') was registered. The samples were sent to Forensic Science Laboratory (f