Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1045 · Decided 19 December 2024
Narcotics Control Bureau v. Kashif
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1045 · [2024] 12 S.C.R. 1406
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 5544/2024
- Decided
- 19 December 2024
- Bench
- BELA M. TRIVEDI, SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- NDPS Act Section 52A, 37, 54
Headnote
Interpretation of Section 52A of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 - Interpretation of: Held: The provisions of NDPS Act are required to be interpreted keeping in mind the Act; as also the impact on the society as a whole - It has to be interpreted literally and not liberally, which may ultimately frustrate the object, purpose and Preamble of the Act. [Para 39(i)] Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 - s.37 - Nature of: Held: While
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