Criminal Appeal No. 1860-SB of 2002

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT

CHANDIGARH

Criminal Appeal No. 1860-SB of 2002

Date of Decision: 18.02.2010

Joginder Pal @ Gola son of Sh. Jit Ram, r/o village

Samrari, P.S. Phillaur, District Jalandhar.

... Appellant

Versus

State of Punjab.

...Respondent

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SHAM SUNDER

Present:

None for the appellant.

Mr. T.S. Salana, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab,

for the respondent – State.

SHAM SUNDER, J.

This appeal is directed against the judgment of conviction

and the order of sentence, dated 08.10.02, rendered by the Court of

Special Judge, Jalandhar, vide which, it convicted the accused

(now appellant), for the offence, punishable under Section 15 of the

Narcotic Drugs and Physchotropic Substances Act, 1985 (hereinafter to

be called as the Act only), and sentenced him to undergo Rigorous

Imprisonment for a period of ten years, and to pay a fine of Rs. 1 lac,

and, in default of payment thereof, to further undergo rigorous

imprisonment, for a period of three months, for having been found in

possession of 240 kgs of poppy husk (8 bags each containing 30 kgs

poppy husk