Supreme Court of India

Directorate of Revenue & Anr. v. Mohammed Nisar Holia

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Reported as [2007] 12 S.C.R. 906

Bench S.B. Sinha and Harjit Singh Bedi JJ.

Decided 5 December 2007

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, we are of the opinion that the impugned judgment does not suffer from any legal infirmity.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, J 985; Ss. 8(c), 22, 29, 42, 43, 66 and 67: c Narcotic drugs-Possession of----Search and seizure-Requirement of-Held: Power to make search and seizure founded upon and subject to satisfaction of the authority-Jn terms of provision u/s. J 65 Cr.P. ., accused must be informed about statutory requirements in regard to search and seizure-An authority cannot be given an untrammeled power to infringe the right of privacy of any person-Court has to see 'r· that such right not infringed unnecessarily-Statute mandates that prosecution must prove

Authorities it was built on

2003 R.v.f Venkatachala Gounder v. Arulmigu Viswesaraswami and V.P. Temple and Anr. cited by 25
2002 Narayanaswamy Ravishankar v. Asstt Director, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2020 Tofan Singh v. State of Tamil Nadu relied on
2015 Mohan Lal v. State of Rajasthan relied on
2023 Mohammad Wajid and Anr. v. State of U.P. and Ors. referred to
2021 Dayle De’souza v. Government of India through Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (c) and Another referred to
2018 S. K. Raju @ Abdul Haque @ Jagga v. State of West Bengal referred to
2017 Justice K S Puttaswamy (retd.), and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors. referred to
2016 State of Rajasthan v. Jag Raj Singh @ Hansa referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 5 referred to

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