REPORTABLE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO(s). 749 OF 2005
C. RONALD & ANR. .. Appellant (s)
VERSUS
STATE, U.T. OF ANDAMAN
& NICOBAR ISLANDS .. Respondent(s)
O R D E R
1. Heard learned counsel for the parties.
2. This Appeal has been filed against the impugned judgment dated
01.10.2004 passed by the Calcutta High Court, Circuit Bench at Port Blair,
in Criminal Appeal No. 31 of 2002.
3. The facts have been set out in great detail in the impugned judgment
and hence we are not repeating the same here except wherever necessary.
4. It appears that on 26.11.1997 Sub Inspector Abdul Salam received a
secret information that in the evening of 25.11.1997 C. Ronald, appellant
No. 1 herein, participated in a gambling. Some hundred rupees notes which
were sought to be used by him in the gambling were not accepted by the co-
gamblers on the ground that they were fake, whereafter Ronald left the
place. He was searched by S.I. Abdul Salam and fake currency notes of Rs.
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J.
(Markandey Katju)
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(Chandramauli Kr. Prasad)
New Delhi;
10 August, 2011