Supreme Court of India

Ghasita Sahu v. State of Madhya Pradesh

Neutral citation
Reported as [2008] 2 S.C.R. 95
Bench S.B. Sinha and V.S. Sirpurkar JJ.
Decided 28 January 2008

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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

From the headnote

Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985: ss.42, 50 and 51 - Search of house - Conditions under s.42 complied by the Investigating Officer- 17. 750 kg. of ganja c recovered from one room - Right of accused to have search made in presence of Magistrate or Gazetted officer-Allegation of breach of such right- Held : Right is available where search is of 'person' of the accused - Since search was of his house, there was no breach of any right - Conviction upheld - Courts below awarded sentence of 5 years- Considering that accused was middle-aged and coming from poor background,

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to · 1 mentioned

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