Supreme Court of India
Tofan Singh v. State of Tamil Nadu
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What the Court ordered
For the aforesaid reasons, we are of the view that the matter needs to be referred to a larger Bench for re consideration of the issue as to whether the officer investigating the matter under NDPS Act would qualify as police officer or not.
Judgment, page 37
From the headnote
NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES ACT, 1985: s. 67 - Power to call for information etc. - Questions: (i) whether the officer investigating the matter under NDPS Act would qualify as police officer or not and (ii) whether the statement recorded by the investigating officer u/s. 67 of the Act can be treated as confessional statement or not, even if the officer is not treated as police officer - Referred to large Bench - Further, sentence suspended till the disposal of appeal by the larger Bench - Appellant released on bail. The appellant, along with others, was convicted uls. 8(c) r/w
Authorities it was built on
- 2008 Noor Aga v. State of Punjab & Anr.
- 1990 Raj Kumar Karwal v. Union of India and Ors.
- 1961 The State of Punjab v. Barkat Ram
- 1999 Pon Adithan v. Deputy Director, Narcotics Control Bureau, Madras/. I
- 2009 U.O.I. v. Bal Mukund & Ors.
- 1963 Raja Ram Jaiswal v. State of Bihar
- 2008 Kanhaiyalal v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2011 Nirmal Singh Pehlwan @ Nimma v. Inspector, Customs, Customs House, Punjab
- 1987 Balbir Singh v. State of Haryana
Where later benches applied it
- 2020 Tofan Singh v. State of Tamil Nadu
- 2019 Mohammed Fasrin v. State Rep. by the Intelligence Officer
- 2018 Surinder Kumar Khanna v. Intelligence Officer Directorate of Revenue Intelligence
Of those, 3 referred to
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