Explosive Substance Act. Anyway, this is a case where huge quantity of explosive substances was found in the possession of the accused, and the prosecution alleges the offence under Section 5 of the Explosive Substances Act. What is made punishable under Section 5 of the Explosive Substances Act is possession of explosive substances for some unlawful object. The wording of Section 5 is in such a way that when any person is found in possession of any explosive substance without any authority, the detecting Officer must have some circumstances or reasons to suspect or believe that the accused possessed such quantity for some unlawful object. Let these things be gone into by the Investigating Officer appropriately. When the prosecution alleges that the accused were found possessing some explosive substances for unlawful object, the detecting officer must have some materials with him to convince the court that he had reason to believe that the accused possessed the substances for some unlawful object. Anyway, wordings of the second part of Section 5 is in such a way that, the burden would shift to the accused to prove that it was not for any sort of unlawful object, or that he simply
