Supreme Court of India

Surinder Kumar Khanna v. Intelligence Officer Directorate of Revenue Intelligence

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Reported as [2018] 9 S.C.R. 338
Bench Abhay Manohar Sapre and Uday Umesh Lalit JJ.
Decided 31 July 2018

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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 reconsideration of the issue as to whether the officer investigating the matter under the NDPS Act would qualify as police officer or not. 2 (1990) 2 SCC 409 3 (2013) 16 SCC 31 4 (2011) 12 SCC 298 5 (2008) 16 SCC 417 SURINDER KUMAR KHANNA v.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 – s.21 r/w. s.29 – Conviction of appellant under, based on confessional statements of co-accused – Propriety of – Held: Con fessional statement of co-accused cannot by itself be taken as a substantive piece of evidence against another co-accused and can at best be used or utilized in order to lend assurance to the ourt – In the present case, apart from the statements of co-accus ed there is no material suggesting involvement of the appellant in the crime in question – In the absence of any substantive evidence, it would be inappropriate to

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