ORDER :

1. Heard Mr. H.K. Bhowmik, learned counsel appearing for the appellant as well as Mr. A. Acharjee, learned special P.P. appearing for the state.

2. This is an appeal under Section 374(2) of the Cr.P.C. from the judgment dated 03.03.2016 delivered in Sessions Trial 27(NT/K) of 2014 by the Sessions Judge, Unakoti Judicial District, Kailashahar. By the said judgment, the appellant has been convicted under Section 489(C) of the IPC having found that counterfeit currency notes were in his possession on knowing or having reason to believe the same were to be counterfeited and intending to use the same as genuine or it might be used as genuine. Pursuant to the said conviction, the appellant has been sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 5(five) years for commission of offence punishable under Section 489C of the IPC.

3. The prosecution against the appellant commenced when a secret source informed PW-11 [Bibhas Ranjan Das] who was the officer-in-Charge of Irani out post that one young boy who acts as the carrier of the counterfeit currencies would carry and pass through Nayapattan to Laxmipur through the field and on the basis of that tip, the police with and without uniform p