building No. 93. At about 8.30 p.m. the members of the raiding party reached in front of room No. 3323 of building ... response. Some whispers could, however, be heard by members of the raiding party. The police party disclosed their identity to the inmates but the door
place called “Chowki Pul Bhatta” along
with contraband article.
5. The raiding party headed by SHO-Harish
Mehra, who was on duty ... place informed by the informant.
6. On reaching the informed place, the raiding
party waited for sometime and thereafter spotted
the person concerned
applied to the said GC notes and recorded in the pre-raid proceedings and
its effect was demonstrated. The tainted GC notes were given ... appellant. He was
further instructed to give a signal to the raiding party by hurling his
hand over his head when bribe amount had actually
selling chura post (poppy husk) in his house and if a raid is
conducted upon the house of the accused, the accused can be caught ... contraband. One Nacchatter Singh is stated to have been
associated with the raiding party which raided the house of the accused.
However, this witness
about 3 p.m. the Police
Inspector, Doman Razak raided the house of the appellant,
Arjun Marik situated in Village Bara within the jurisdiction ... police station, Mohanpur, District Deoghar. During the
raid it
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is said that Arjun Marik made his escape good from his house
but then
basis of some secret information the premises at 308A, Ghazipur were
raided on the night of 25-26.12.2000 and the appellant-accused Mohd. Arif
@ Ashfaq ... Delhi.
7. He was immediately taken to that house by the raiding team which
was headed by Inspector Mahesh Chandra Sharma (PW-229) and truly
Assistant Commissioner of Police,
Anti-Narcotics Department, DD to organize a raid (Exhibit-2). Permission was
granted by the superior officer on the same ... raiding team consisting
of PW-2 and others reached the spot at about 12.50 pm. At around 1.40 pm,
the source of the information pointed
28th of June, 1985 in the morning
the informant (PW6) met the raiding party near the inspection
bunglow at Sitamarhi where the informant produced ... prosecution further that PW6 alongwith the watcher PW5 and others
of the raiding party proceeded towards the residence of the appellant
and the raiding party
handover to the accused at the time of the trap.
The raiding party reached padavi round about 7.00 P.M. and
waited for the respondent ... some
others of the raiding pary. Thereafter Khamkar, PW 11, went
into the room and tried to hold the hands of the respondent
Criminal Law-Byibe-Trap-Testimony of the raiding Party-
Reliability-Independent corroboration-Whether- essential-
Whether circumstantial evidence sufficient-Evidence of
Magistrate interested in the trap ... there was no
independent witness to support the testimony of the "
raiding party " consisting of the two bribegivers and the
three officers
