20$\%$ of the Crab Nebula flux above 200 GeV [@Accia10]. The time averaged differential energy spectrum, in the energy range 0.2-1.8 TeV, was found to be a power law with index of 3.07$\pm$0.09. This flaring activity was characterized by a variability time scale of days. The corrected spectrum after accounting for absorption due to EBL suggests a very hard intrinsic source spectrum with index $\le$ 1.28$\pm$0.28 [@Kren08] in VHE regime based on lower limit EBL model [@LW08].

*Fermi*-LAT (Large Area Telescope) also detected significant emission from 1ES 1218+304 during its first two years of operation [@Nol12]. The *Fermi*-LAT spectrum of the source is described by a power law with index 1.71$\pm$0.07, making it one of the hardest spectrum sources in MeV-GeV range. Due to relatively large redshift of the source, we expect a significant attenuation of TeV photons above 1 TeV due to EBL absorption. This makes the source a good candidate for probing EBL using TeV observations. It is because of these characteristics of the source we were motivated to observe the source with $TACTIC$ (TeV Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope with Imaging Camera) in the TeV energy region.

The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 gives a brief description 