M.R. Pathak, J.

Heard Mr. C. Lalfakzuala, learned counsel for the accused appellant and Mrs. Linda L. Fambawl, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, Mizoram for the State respondent.

2. The convicted accused Smt. Chingo, as an appellant, has preferred this Criminal Appeal being aggrieved with the Judgment & Order of conviction dated 29.05.2017 and the order of sentence dated 31.05.2017 passed by learned Special Judge (Additional Sessions Judge, Siaha), Special Court, ND & PS Act, Siaha, Mizoram in S.R. No. 04/2016 (Criminal Trial No. 49/2016) arising out of Siaha Police Station Case No, 46/2016 by which the appellant was convicted under Section 18 (c) of the ND & PS Act, 1985 and sentenced to undergo 3 (three) years of Rigorous Imprisonment with a fine of Rs. 9,000/-, in default of payment of fine, further imprisonment for 3 (three) months, setting of the period of detention already in Judicial Custody in the said case.

3. The prosecution case as it emerges from its First Information Report dated 05.05.2016 (Exhibit P-12) lodged by PW-1 Sh. David H. Lallianhluana, S.I. of Police is that when he along with another S.I. and an A.S.I. of Police and his staff, including