PRASANTA SARKAR Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) I am hearing this appeal as against the judgment and order of conviction dated 9th April, 2014 passed by the learned Additional District and Sessions Judge, 5th Court, Barasat, North 24 Parganas in Sessions Trial No. 1(12) 11 arising out of Sessions Case No. 5(8) 11 (Ashokenagar P.S. Case No. 130/11, G.R. Case No. 1306 of 2011).

(2.) THE prosecution case as unfold at the time of trial can be stated in brief. Thus:

(3.) THEREAFTER , the accused was searched and the police party found eighty -five hundred rupee notes in total rupees forty thousand which were kept in a plastic bag in possession of the accused. The notes were in four sets divided into four series (i) 8BQ -J 32311, (ii) 8BQ -J 32312, (iii) 8BQ -J 32313 and (iv) 8BQ -J 32316. All such notes were 20 in number per series. Those were suspected to be fake currency notes and as such those were seized as per seizure list which was marked as Exhibit 2 and the accused was also asked to sign which he did. The accused was thereafter arrested and taken to Ashokenagar Police Station and the FIR was lodged by PW1, I repeat Rajarshi Banerjee giving rise to Ashokenagar P.S. Case No. 130/11 dated 29.3.11 under Sections 489B and 489C of the Indian Penal Code (hereinafter called as the said Code). The case was investigated by P.W.9, Dilip Kumar Sinha, SI of Barasat DD, CID, West Bengal.