Advocates:
['m/s t k sampath associates', 'N P KUMAR', '', 'SPECIAL PUBLIC PROSECUTOR', 'FOR DRI CASES']

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED: 29.04.2009

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN

CRIMINAL APPEAL No.120 of 2007

and M.P.No.1 of 2007

Raju Kandan Mudaliar

... Appellant

Vs.

State by:

The Intelligence Officer

Directorate of Revenue Intelligence

Chennai Zonal Unit, T.Nagar,

Chennai – 17

R.R.No.2 of 2003

.. Respondent

Criminal Appeal filed under Section 374 (2) of the Criminal

Procedure Code against the judgment dated 06.08.2004 made in

C.C.No.155 of 2003 on the file of learned Principal Special Judge,

Special Court under E.C. and NDPS, Chennai.

For Appellant :

Mr. T.K.Sampath, for

M/s. T.K.Sampath Associates

For Respondent :

Mr. N.P.Kumar, Spl.P.P., DRI Cases

J U D G M E N T

The above Criminal Appeal has been preferred against the

judgment of conviction and sentence, dated 06.08.2004, made in

C.C.No.155 of 2003, on the file of the learned Principal Special

Judge, Special Court under E.C. and NDPS Act, Chennai.

2. The appellant herein is the accused in the case before the

trial court and after the trial, he was convicted under Sections 8

(c) read with 21 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic

Substances Act, 1985 (