JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Sri D.S. Mishra, learned Advocate assisted by Sri U.B. Singh and Sri Chandrakesh Mishra, learned counsel for the respective appellants, Sri Ashish Pandey, learned counsel for the Narcotics Control Board and Sri B.A. Khan, learned Additional Government Advocate for the State.

2. These two above noted criminal appeals have been listed together under the order of this Court dated 20th August, 2019 as they arise out of common judgment dated 3rd July, 2012 passed in Sessions Trial No. 188 of 2003 (State v. Pyare Lal) under Section 8 /20/27A/29 of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Act, 1985 passed by Additional District and Sessions Judge, Court No. 24/Special Judge, Allahabad. Accordingly both the appeals have been heard together and are being decided by this common judgment.

3. The prosecution case in the complaint is that on receiving information from some reliable confidential sources, Sri Kaushal Kant Mishra, an intelligence officer of the Narcotics Control Bureau Control, Varanasi landed at Allahabad on 2nd June, 2003 alongwith a team of officers at around 5:00 pm directly at the gate of M/s Gati Transport Private Ltd. a private transport service for c