Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985

Mohammad Yasin appealed against the Delhi High Court order that dismissed his petition seeking a CBI investigation and a FIR under s.302 IPC into the death of his brother Yunus (alias Anees) while in police custody. Yunus, a proclaimed offender with a history of multiple criminal cases, was arrested on 4 August 1999, s…

The Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) intercepted a truck carrying a large quantity of hashish and, during the investigation, obtained confessional statements from Raj Kumar Karwal and Kirpal Mohan Virmani. The appellants argued that these statements should be excluded under Section 25 of the Evidence Act becaus…

The appellant was stopped by police and found driving a car containing two bags of poppy straw, which were mixed and sampled before being seized. He was convicted under Section 15 of the NDPS Act for possessing a commercial quantity of the contraband and sentenced to ten years' rigorous imprisonment. On appeal, he chal…

The appellant was arrested for offences under Sections 147, 148, 302 and 323 read with 149 IPC and, after the investigating agency failed to file a charge‑sheet within the 90‑day period prescribed by the proviso to Section 167(2) of the CrPC, the Sessions Judge released him on bail. After the charge‑sheet was later fil…

The State of Uttarakhand appealed against the High Court’s order granting bail to Rajesh Kumar Gupta, an Ayurvedacharya who was arrested for allegedly dispensing unlabelled tablets containing psychotropic substances such as phenobarbitone and chlorodiazepoxide, claimed to be herbal cures for epilepsy. Seizure of about …

The appellant Rizwan Khan was seized with 20 kg of ganja from a motorcycle and convicted under Section 20(b)(ii)(B) of the ND PS Act. He challenged the conviction on several grounds, including that the prosecution relied solely on police witnesses, that the procedural requirements of Sections 42 and 55 of the ND PS Act…

The Intelligence Officer of the Narcotics Control Bureau recovered 18.7 kg of ganja from Shambhu Sonkar and charged him under Section 20(b)(i) of the NDPS Act. The trial court denied bail, but the Calcutta High Court granted bail, holding that Section 37 of the NDPS Act did not apply because the maximum punishment for …