The State, through an Intelligence Officer of the Narcotics Control Bureau, charged Mushtaq Ahmad and Guizar Ahmad with possession of large amounts of charas (6.2 kg and 4.0 kg respectively) seized on 5 April 2004. The trial court held that the seized charas constituted a "commercial quantity" under …
The State of NCT of Delhi appealed against the conviction of Ashif Khan for possession of heroin under Sections 21(a) and (b) of the NDPS Act. A total of 310 g of material was seized, which forensic analysis showed contained 0.95% heroin, amounting to 2.945 g of the drug. The issue was whether the …
The appellant, Amarsingh Ramjibhai Barot, was intercepted by police along with a co-accused and was found in possession of 920 grams of a black liquid suspected to be opium; the co-accused possessed 4.250 kg. Samples sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory were reported as opium containing 2.8% …
The appellants, convicted under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, had pending appeals when the NDPS (Amendment) Act, 2001 came into force on 2‑October‑2001. Section 41(1) of the amendment applied the new graded‑sentence regime to all pending cases except those "pending in …
The Supreme Court examined the appeal of four accused convicted under the NDPS Act for a large heroin seizure. The appellants contended that their confessional statements recorded under Section 67 were involuntary, obtained through torture, and inadmissible because they were made to Revenue …
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