Supreme Court of India
Alakh Ram v. State of U.P.
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What the Court ordered
In the result, we find appellant Alakh Ram not guilty of the offence under Section 20 of the NDPS Act.
Judgment, page 3
From the headnote
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, /985: ss. 8 and 20-·f 7 ganja plants seized Ji-om agricultural field belonging to accused-Accused prosecuted on the charge that he planted ganja plants in his field-Conviction and 3 years imprisonment awarded by trial court Afjirmed by High Court-Held, in order to prove the guilt, it must be proved that accused had cultivated the prohibited plants-There is no evidence that there was cultivation of Ganja plants by accused-Having regard to the extent of the property and the number of plants recovered from that property, it cannot be said that the
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