Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 813 · Decided 24 November 2010
Central Bureau of Narcotics v. Bahadur Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 813 · [2010] 14 S.C.R. 788
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 630/2004
- Decided
- 24 November 2010
- Bench
- H.S. BEDI, C.K. PRASAD (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 136; NDPS Act Section 8118, 42, 47, 8, 18
Headnote
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985: ss. 8118, 42 and 47 - Recovery of opium from a box lying in a Dhaba - Servant in the Dhaba prosecuted as the key was recovered from him - Conviction by trial court - Acquittal by High Court - HELD: High Court has gone through and rightly recorded that there was no independent witness of the alleged recovery as all the independent witnesses had resiled from their initial version and that even the two official witnesses had given discrepant statements with the result that they too could not be relied upon, that there
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)