Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 545 · Decided 15 September 2020
Jeet Ram v. The Narcotics Control Bureau, Chandigarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 545 · [2020] 7 S.C.R. 558
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 688/2013
- Decided
- 15 September 2020
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, M.R. SHAH, R. SUBHASH REDDY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 313; NDPS Act Section 50, 54
Headnote
Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 - ss.20, 50 and 54 - Appellant was charged u/s.20 - Acquitted by trial court - Convicted by High Court - On appeal, held: Findings recorded by trial court are contrary to - s.50 is applicable only in case of personal search - No basis for the findings recorded by trial court that there was non-compliance of provision u/s.50 - Depositions of prosecution witnesses are trustworthy and cannot be said to be unnatural and improbable - No
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