Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 1131 · Decided 3 December 2018
State of Punjab v. Rakesh Kumar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 1131 · [2018] 14 S.C.R. 415
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1512/2018
- Decided
- 3 December 2018
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, MOHAN M. SHANTANAGOUDAR, M.R. SHAH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 389; NDPS Act Section 21, 22, 8
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.389 - Suspension of sentence - In the instant case, the respondents were apprehended with "manufactured drugs" and convicted by trial court under ss.21 and 22 of the NDPS Act - High Court allowed the applications for suspension of the instant matters related to "manufactured drugs", the respondents should have been tried for the violation of provisions of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and not under the NDPS Act - State filed instant appeals - Held: While the Drugs and Cosmetics Act deals with
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