Supreme Court of India
Dharampal Singh v. State of Punjab
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What the Court ordered
For the reasons aforesaid this case is of no assistance to the appellants.
Judgment, page 14
From the headnote
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 - ss. 18, 35 and 54 - Punishment for contravention in relation to opium poppy and opium - Factum of 'conscious possession' - Held: Under s. 18, possession has to be conscious possession - Initial burden of proof of possession, lies on prosecution and once it is discharged legal burden shifts on accused - Once possession is established accused, who claims that it was not a conscious possession, has to establish it because it is within his special knowledge - Possession is a mental stqte and s. 35 gives statutory recognition to culpable
Where later benches applied it
- 2022 Sanjeet Kumar Singh @ Munna Kumar Singh v. State of Chhattisgarh
- 2015 Mohan Lal v. State of Rajasthan
- 2021 Union of India through Narcotics Control Bureau, Lucknow v. Md. Nawaz Khan
- 2020 Jeet Ram v. The Narcotics Control Bureau, Chandigarh
- 2015 Kulwinder Singh &anr. v. State of Punjab
Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to
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