JUDGMENT

(Common Prayer: These Criminal Appeals are filed under Section 374(2) of Cr.P.C. to call for the records in C.C.No.155 of 2020 dated 29.08.2022 on the file of the learned I Additional Special Court for NDPS Act Cases, Madurai and set aside the same.)

Common Judgment

1. These appeals have been filed to set aside the conviction and sentence passed by the 1st Additional Special Court for NDPS Act cases, Madurai, in C.C.No.155 of 2020 dated 29.08.2022.

2. Since the appellants in all the appeals were arrayed as accused No. 2 to 4 in the same crime number, these appeals are taken up together for hearing and disposed by way of this common judgment.

3. The appellants and other two accused are said to have committed offence under Sections 8(C) r/w 20(b)(ii)(c), of Narcotic Drug Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, (hereinafter, for the sake of brevity, referred to as “NDPS Act”). On 15.02.2020, at 05.00 a.m., when the appellants and other accused illegally transported 168 Kg., of Ganja in the car bearing registration No.TN-09-BW-5591, they were intercepted by the respondent police and made a search in the car. After the search, the said larger quantity of ganja was recovered as per the pr