THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE E.V.VENUGOPAL CRIMINAL APPEAL No.357 OF 2013

JUDGMENT :

The present criminal appeal is preferred by the appellant/

accused under Section 374(2) of Cr.P.C., aggrieved by the judgment dated 10.04.2013 in NDPS SC No.29 of 2012 on the file of the learned I Additional Sessions Judge, Medak at Sangareddy, wherein and where under the accused/appellant was found guilty for the offence punishable under Section 20(a) of NDPS Act, 1985 and was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of one year and to pay a fine of Rs.10,000/- in default to undergo simple imprisonment for a period of three months.

2. Heard Sri Palle Sriharinath learned counsel for the appellant and Sri E.Ganesh, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the respondent/State.

3. The facts that germane for registration of the sessions case are that on 23.01.2012 at about 08.00 hours PW1/Police Constable of PS, Sirgapur lodged Ex.P1 complaint complaining that on the credible information that ganja was being cultivated in Malhapur Village, their team searched Malhalpur Village of Kalher Mandal and found cultivation of ganja plants numbering to 1,00,000 grown to a height of 3 to 3 ½ feet in the fi