8 With the able assistance of the respective counsel, I have perused the charge-sheet placed on record which has cited 155 witnesses and charged the accused persons under Sections 8C, 9A, 22, 23, 24, 25A, 27A, 28 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. There is no dispute about the fact that the substance which the C.R deals with, is ephedrine and the allegation against the accused persons in the charge-sheet, is to the effect that accused nos.6, 10 and 13 and the wanted accused conspired in the meeting held in 2016 for transporting the ephedrine powder from the Avon Life Science, a Company belonging to accused no.6 in Solapur, to Kenya for the purpose of manufacturing methamphetamine, a drug and for earning profit by selling this product, through the wanted accused Vicky Goswami and Mr.Abdullah, in rest of the world. As a part of the conspiracy, the charge-sheet specify that accused no.5 and accused no.10 removed 150 kgs of ephedrine from the Company, illegally and through accused no.13, brought the same in Gujarat for accused no.8, for the purpose of it’s further processing. After processing the same, the psychotropic substance that came into existence, was transmitted to the wanted accused, Vicky Goswami in Mumbai and this product was further sent to Kenya and crores of rupees as a consideration for the same, was received by Manoj Jain through ‘hawala’. The charge-sheet in the background highlight the seriousness of the drug menace globally and
