Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 1067 · Decided 28 November 2016
Dilbagh Singh v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 1067 · [2016] 7 S.C.R. 781
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1096/2016
- Decided
- 28 November 2016
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, AMITAVA ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- NDPS Act Section 15
Headnote
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, I985: ss.50, 57 - Applicability of - Recovery of six bags of poppy husk from car - Conviction by courts below - Plea of non-compliance of ss.50 and 57 - Held: Since the contraband were recovered from inside the car, s.50 is not applicable - As concluded that the Investigating Officer at the site had, after the arrest of the accused persons and seizure of the contraband forwarded the said information to his higher officer, namely, Deputy Superintendent of Police without any delay and that the related FIR with the necessary
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