Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 342 · Decided 28 April 2011
Ram Singh v. Central Bureau of Narcotics
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 342 · [2011] 5 S.C.R. 967
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 451/2005
- Decided
- 28 April 2011
- Bench
- H.S. BEDI, C.K. PRASAD (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 173; Evidence Act Section 25, 26, 24
Headnote
NARCOTIC DRUGS AND· "PSYCHOTROPIC A B SUBSTANCES ACT, 1985. C ss. 8 and 18-'Conscious possession'-Recovery of opium from a room belonging to a hotel-Conviction of the servant of the hotel on the basis of his confessional statements that he brought the opium to the hotel from the 0 and opium tablets were sold to truck drivers-Affirmed by High Court-Held: Control over the goods is one of the tests to ascertain conscious possession so also the title - A servant of a hotel cannot be said to be in-possession of contraband belonging to his master unless it is proved that it
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