CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD and HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRAVEEN KUMAR ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD)

7 19-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the appellant and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. Records have been placed before this Court to consider the prayer of the appellant for suspension of his sentence and release on bail during pendency of the appeal.

3. The appellant has been convicted vide judgment dated 19.03.2021 and sentenced vide order dated 22.03.2021 by learned Additional District & Sessions Judge-XIII, Rohtas at Sasaram in NDPS Case No. 02 of 2019 arising out of Shivsagar P.S. Case No. 05 of 2019 for the offence under Section 20 (II)(C) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (in short ‘NDPS Act’) and has been ordered to undergo fifteen years rigorous imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.1,00,000/- and in case of default of payment of fine, he has to further undergo imprisonment for four months.

4. The prosecution case is based on the self-statement of S.H.O. Lakshmi Narayan Sudhanshu who has stated as under:-

On 04.10.2019 at 06:35 Hours, he got a secret information that one silver colo