Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 241 · Decided 2 March 2020
Than Kunwar v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 241 · [2020] 3 S.C.R. 1090
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2172/2011
- Decided
- 2 March 2020
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, K.M. JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- NDPS Act Section 50
Headnote
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 - s.50 - Applicability of s.50 in a case where there is personal search also - In the instant case, appellant and another accused carrying a bag in their hands were intercepted by police party - Contraband goods weighing bag - Conviction of appellant under s.18 by courts below - Challenged on the ground that s.50 was not complied; that DSP-Gazetted Officer in whose presence the search as alleged by the prosecution was conducted was present at the same time in another case; that the contraband
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