2025:CGHC:5929 AFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR CRA No. 544 of 2021

1 - Anto Yadav S/o Baisakhu Yadav Aged About 30 Years R/o Khajari Dhav, Police Station- Bahar, District- Jashpur, Chhattisgarh ... Appellant(s)

versus

1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through Police Station- Farasgaon, District-

Kondagaon, Chhattisgarh.

... Respondent(s)

For Petitioner(s) : Shri S.P.Sannat Advocate on behalf of Shri Basant Kaiwartya, Advocate For Respondent/State : Shri Karan Kumar Bahrani, PL (Hon’ble Shri Justice Arvind Kumar Verma)

Judgment on Board

31/01/2025 The present appeal has been filed under Section 374(2) of the Cr.P.C. against the impugned judgment of conviction and sentence dated 07.04.2021 passed by the learned Special Judge (NDPS Act- 1985) Kondagaon, District Kondagaon in Special Criminal Case under the NDPS Act No.492/2022 whereby the appellant has been convicted for the offence under section 20(b)(ii-c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (in short ‘the NDPS Act’) and sentenced with R.I. for 10 years with fine of Rs.1,00,000/-, in default of payment of fine, additional R.I. for 1 year.

2. Brief facts of the case are that on the basis of secret information recei