Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 426 · Decided 27 April 2018
Arif Khan @ Agha Khan v. State of Uttarakhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 426 · [2018] 6 S.C.R. 787
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 273/2007
- Decided
- 27 April 2018
- Bench
- R.K. AGRAWAL, ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- NDPS Act Section 20, 50
Headnote
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 - ss.20 and 50 - Non-compliance of s.50 - Prosecution case that Police raided appellant-accused and on search found contraband article "Charas" weighing around 2.5 Kg in quantity from his body - Trial Court High Court - Appellant-accused contended that the prosecution failed to ensure mandatory compliance of s.50 of the NDPS Act - Held: In order to make the search and recovery of the contraband articles from the body of the suspect, the search and recovery has to be in conformity with the
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