(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHAILENDRA SINGH)

Date : 08-01-2026 As both the appeals have arisen out of the same judgment, hence, they are being decided together by a common judgment.

2. Mr. Pankaj Kumar Sinha, learned counsel for the appellant in Cr. APP(DB) No. 348/2023, Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, learned counsel for the appellant in Cr. APP(DB) No. 754/2025, and Mr. Dr. K. N. Singh, learned Additional Solicitor General (ASG), assisted by Mr. Manoj Kumar Singh and Mr. Arvind Kumar, learned Special Public Prosecutors for the NIA, are present and have been heard.

3. Both the appeals have been preferred against the judgment of conviction dated 22.02.2022, by which both the appellants, along with other co-accused Shahnawaj Shaikh @ Shahnawaj Kasuri @ Shahanoyaj Kasuri, were convicted mainly on the basis of their plea of guilty under Section 229 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (in short, ‘Cr.P.C.’), and the order of sentence dated 25.02.2022, by which both the appellants were sentenced for the charged offences under Sections 489B , 489C and 120B read with Section 489B of the Indian Penal Code , 1860 (in short, ‘IPC’). For the offence under Section 489B of IPC, both the appellants have been sen