JUDGMENT :

N. Anand Venkatesh, J.

This Criminal Original Petition has been filed seeking to quash the proceedings in Main Case No.55 of 2005 in Split up C.C.No.9 of 2007, pending on the file of the I Additional Special Court for NDPS and EC Act, Chennai.

2. The respondent filed a complaint in C.C.No.55 of 2005, as against six accused persons for an offence under Section 8(C) r/w Sections 21, 23, 27A, 28 and 29 punishable under Sections 21(c), 23, 27A, 28 and 29 of the N.D.P.S. Act, 1985 as amended in 2001. The case was split up as against this petitioner and the petitioner was arrayed as A-1 in C.C.No.9 of 2007. The petitioner was remanded to judicial custody on 25.04.2011, by way of P.T.Warrant and he was subsequently released on bail by order dated 17.01.2013, by this Court.

3. The case of the prosecution is that based on a secret information, the officers belonging to the respondent Department intercepted a Car on 21.04.2004, and seized 5.250 kg of Heroin. Four persons were arrested by the respondent. These persons under went trial in C.C.No.55 of 2005, and they were convicted by a judgment dated 18.12.2009. The conviction was later confirmed by this Court, and it is stated that the