Supreme Court of India

Nirmal Singh Pehlwan @ Nimma v. Inspector, Customs, Customs House, Punjab

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Reported as [2011] 9 S.C.R. 446
Bench Harjit Singh Bedi and Gyan Sudha Misra JJ.
Decided 21 July 2011

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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

From the headnote

NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES ACT, 1985: s. 22 read with s. 50 - Right of accused to be informed that he has an option of being searched in the presence of a Gazetted Officer or a Magistrate - Accused found in 0 possession of 2 packets containing 1 kg heroin each - Consent memo signed by him to be searched in presence of a Gazetted Officer - Held: The consent memo cannot be said as informing the accused of his right to be searched in the presence of a Gazetted Officer or a Magistrate, as he was only given the option to be searched before one of the other - The Officer concerned

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to · 2 mentioned

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