Supreme Court of India

Noor Aga v. State of Punjab & Anr.

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Reported as [2008] 10 S.C.R. 379

Bench S.B. Sinha and V.S. Sirpurkar JJ.

Decided 9 July 2008

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27 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

From the headnote

Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985: ss. 22, 23, 52A, 53 and 53A -Possession of contraband - Recovery - Prosecution - Confessions made by accused c before Customs authorities - During trial confession retracted - Conviction by courts below - On appeal, held: Conviction not justified - In the facts of the case, recovery not proved *-+ beyond reasonable doubt - Investigation of the case not fair and reasonable - There are discrepancies in the treatment and disposal of physical evidence leading to drawl of nega- tive inference - Cumulative effect of the facts of contradiction in

Authorities it was built on

2001 Hiten P. Dalal v. Bratindranath Banerjee cited by 15
2006 Babubhai Udesinh Parmar v. State of Gujarat cited by 7
2008 B. Nagabhushanam v. State of Karnataka cited by 5
1999 Pon Adithan v. Deputy Director, Narcotics Control Bureau, Madras/. I cited by 5
1997 Md. Alimuddin v. Waizuddin and Anr. cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2024 Md. Rahim Ali @ Abdur Rahim v. The State of Assam & Ors. relied on
2023 Mangilal v. The State of Madhya Pradesh relied on
2020 Tofan Singh v. State of Tamil Nadu relied on
2018 Mohanlal v. The State of Punjab relied on
2018 Dr. Subhash Kashinath Mahajan v. The State of Maharashtra and Anr. relied on
2018 Union of India v. Jarooparam relied on
2015 Mohan Lal v. State of Rajasthan relied on
2013 Selvi J. Jayalalithaa & Ors. v. State of Karnataka & Ors. relied on
2013 Nirmala J. Jhala v. State of Gujarat & Anr. relied on
2008 Man Bahadur v. State of H.P. relied on
2025 Jothi @ Nagajothi v. The State, Rep. by the Inspector of Police referred to
2025 Kailas S/o Bajirao Pawar v. The State of Maharashtra referred to
2025 Nadeem Ahamed v. The State of West Bengal referred to
2025 Hakim v. State of Nct of Delhi and Anr. referred to
2025 Bishwajit Dey v. The State of Assam referred to
2025 Bharat Aambale v. The State of Chhattisgarh referred to
2024 Manik & Ors. v. The State of Maharashtra referred to
2022 Vijay Madanlal Choudhary & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2022 Manoj & Ors v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2020 Mukesh Singh v. State (narcotic Branch of Delhi) referred to
2020 Surinder Kumar v. State of Punjab referred to
2019 State of Rajasthan v. Sahi Ram referred to
2016 Girish Raghunath Mehta v. Inspector of Customs and Another referred to
2013 Tofan Singh v. State of Tamil Nadu referred to
2013 Vijay Jain v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2012 Mohammed Ajmal Mohammad Amir Kasab @ Abu Mujahid v. State of Maharashtra mentioned
2022 Pappu v. The State of Uttar Pradesh not applicable

Of those, 10 relied on · 15 referred to · 1 mentioned · 1 not applicable

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