Supreme Court of India

Raveen Kumar v. State of Himachal Pradesh

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Reported as [2020] 8 S.C.R. 1044
Bench N. V. Ramana, Surya Kant and Hrishikesh Roy JJ.
Decided 26 October 2020

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Criminal Law – Appeal against acquittal – Appellant acquitted u/s.20, NDPS Act – Acquittal reversed by High Court – On appea l, held: Appellant’s acquittal was primarily based upo n the finding that the case was not one of ‘chance recovery’ – Trial ourt reached such finding on the basis of certain averments made in a written reply submitted by prosecution in opposition to app ellant’s bail application – No opportunity to controvert this reply docume nt was given to the prosecution, nor was PW5 confronted with it – Fur ther, PW1’s statement (sole independent witness, though declared hostile by

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