Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 338 · Decided 11 March 2008
E. Micheal Raj v. Intelligence Officer, Narcotic Control Bureau
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 338 · [2008] 4 S.C.R. 644
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1250/2005
- Decided
- 11 March 2008
- Bench
- P.P. NAOLEKAR, LOKESHWAR SINGH PANTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- NDPS Act Section 8, 21(c)
Headnote
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances c (Amendment) Act, 2001 - Object of - Held: Is to rationalize the sentence structure so as to ensure that while drug traffickers who traffic in significant quantities of drugs are punished with deterrent sentence, the addicts and those who offences are sentenced to less severe punishment - 0 Under the rationalised sentence structure, the punishment varies depending upon the quantity of offending material - Interpretation of statutes - Legislative intent - Sentence/ Sentencing - Rationalization of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
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