JUDGMENT :

MRIDUL KUMAR KALITA, J.

1. Heard Mr. N. Mahajan, learned counsel for the appellant. Also heard Mr. P.S. Lahkar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State of Assam.

2. This Appeal has been preferred under Section 374 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, by the appellant Sri Raj Narayan Das, impugning the judgment and order dated 14.10.2011, passed by the Court of the learned Additional learned Sessions Judge, Kamrup, Guwahati in Sessions Case No. 159(K)/2009, whereby the present appellant was convicted under Section 22(b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 and was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for seven years and to pay a fine of Rs. 25,000/- and in default of payment of fine to undergo further rigorous imprisonment for a period of another three months.

3. The facts relevant for adjudication of this instant Criminal Appeal, in brief, are as follows:

(i) That on 08.05.2009, one Sri Kalyan Kumar Gogoi, lodged an FIR before the Officer-in-Charge of C.I.D. Police Station, Ulubari, Guwahati, inter-alia, alleging that on 07.05.2009 at about 4.10 P.M. the first informant along with a team of police personnel under the supervision