Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 993 · Decided 5 August 2025
Nadeem Ahamed v. The State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 993 · [2025] 8 S.C.R. 987
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3573/2025
- Decided
- 5 August 2025
- Bench
- ARAVIND KUMAR, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 374(2); NDPS Act Section 21(c), 29, 52A
Headnote
Whether the Courts below erred in convicting the accused-appellant for the offences punishable u/ss.21(c) and 29, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 - s.52A - to be heroin, weighing about 125gms and 130gms were recovered from the appellant and the co-accused, respectively - Since the gross weight of narcotic substance was 255gms thus, the seized contraband was treated to be of commercial quantity - Conviction u/ss.21(c), 29 and sentenced
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