Supreme Court of India

Mohinder Singh v. The State of Punjab

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Reported as [2018] 10 S.C.R. 910

Bench Ranjan Gogoi, R. Banumathi and Navin Sinha JJ.

Decided 14 August 2018

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the conviction of the appellant under Section 18 of the NDPS Act and the sentence of imprisonment imposed on him is set aside and this appeal is allowed and the appellant is acquitted of the charge.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985: s.50 – Prosecution case was that the appellant was carrying contraband substance in a bag – On search of bag in presence o f DSP, the substance in bag was found to be opium of 7.04 kg – Two sample s of 20 gms each were taken and sealed – Case property alo ng with two samples deposited in Malkhana and next day produc ed before the Magistrate – Samples parcels sent to FSL and fo und to be opium – Acquittal by trial court for non-compliance of s .50 of the Act and on the ground that the order of the Magistrate did not show that the seal of

Authorities it was built on

2007 Chandrappa and Ors. v. State of Karnataka cited by 45
2005 State of Himachal Pradesh v. Pawan Kumar cited by 13
2011 Ashok @ Dangra Jaiswal v. State of M.P. cited by 6
2013 Vijay Jain v. State of Madhya Pradesh cited by 5
2009 Bhaskar Ramappa Madar and Ors. v. State of Karnataka cited by 4
2012 Jugendra Singh v. State of U.P. cited by 4
2009 State of U.P. v. Ram Sajivan & Ors. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2020 Than Kunwar v. State of Haryana referred to

Of those, 1 referred to

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