Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 498 · Decided 17 April 2025
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence v. Raj Kumar Arora & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 498 · [2025] 4 S.C.R. 835
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1319/2013
- Decided
- 17 April 2025
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 228, 216; NDPS Act Section 8(c), 8
Headnote
Issue arose whether an offence u/s.8(c) of the NDPS Act could be said to have been made out when an accused "deals with" psychotropic substances mentioned in the Schedule to the NDPS Act but not figuring in Schedule I of the Rules thereunder; whether the case must operate with prospective effect; and that once, charge has been framed by a competent court u/s.228 CrPC, can an accused thereafter seek for discharge/deletion of a particular offence from the charge u/s.216 CrPC. Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
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