Supreme Court of India

State of Haryana v. Mai Ram Son of Mam Chand

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Reported as [2008] 11 S.C.R. 586
Decided 31 July 2008

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Narcotic prugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985: c ss. 17 and 50. Search - On basis of suspicion - Held: Law does not require recording of elaborate reasons for entertaining suspi- cion about an accused. Seizure - Of contraband article - Only police officials, PWs 1 and 2 examined as witnesses - High Court holding that the prosecution version became vulnerable for non-ex- amination of persons who were not official witnesses - Cor- ~~ rectness of - Held: -Not correct, since no material brought on record by defence to discredit the evidence of official witnesses and further PWs 1 and 2

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