Virender Singh, J. - Hakikat Rai Son of Karan Chand the appellant herein stands convicted under Section 17 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short to be referred to as the Act) and has been sentenced to undergo RI for ten years and to pay a fine of Rs. one lac, in default of payment of fine to further undergo RI for one and a half years.

2. In short the case of the prosecution is that on the basis of secret information received on 6.8.1990 by PW8 Inspector Kuldeep Singh of CIA Staff Kaithal to the effect that the present appellant who indulges in large scale in the sale of opium was keeping substantive quantity of opium in his house and the same can be recovered on raid. Ruqa Ex. PB was sent for registration of formal FIR Ex. PB/2 under Section 18 of the Act against the appellant through Constable Chand Singh. Constable Dharambir was also sent to Deputy Superintendent of Police, Headquarters requesting him to reach at the spot. It is then the case of the prosecution that thereafter Inspector Kuldeep Singh alongwith Sub Inspector Ronki Ram, ASI Rajinder Singh, ASI Zile Singh alongwith other police officials left the CIA staff in his official Je