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Section 50 NDPS Not Attracted to Bag Search; Written Waiver of Right Required Henceforth, Supreme Court Holds
The Supreme Court upheld a conviction for 1.25 kg of charas found in a bag the accused carried on his shoulder. Although Section 50 of the NDPS Act was breached by offering him a third option of being searched by the pol...
Police Cannot Re-arrest on Their Own After Breaching Article 22; Magistrate's Permission Needed, Supreme Court Holds
The Supreme Court held that when an accused is released because the police breached Article 22(1), by not giving written grounds of arrest, or Article 22(2), by not producing him before a Magistrate within 24 hours, the...
Supreme Court Upholds NDPS Conviction, Lays Down Ten-Point Guide On Section 52A Compliance
The Supreme Court has upheld a 15-year NDPS conviction, rejecting the claim that mixing 73 seized packets before drawing samples breached Section 52A. It found no procedural lapse on the record, and separately held that...
Police Confession Alone Cannot Justify Preventive Detention: Supreme Court Quashes NSA Detention Over Sambhal Violence
The Supreme Court quashed the National Security Act detention of Mulla Afroz, arrested after the November 2024 violence during a mosque survey in Sambhal, and imposed costs of Rs 10 lakh on the State. A confession made t...
Unexplained Recording of Convenient Witnesses Dents Credibility: Supreme Court Upholds Acquittal in Double Murder
The Supreme Court dismissed Himachal Pradesh's appeal against the acquittal of a woman accused of strangling her step-mother and minor step-brother. The last-seen witness had improved on his police statement, the investi...
Section 50 of the NDPS Act: The Search of the Person, the Right to Notice, and the Question of the Bag
An explainer on India's most litigated NDPS procedural safeguard — the statutory text, the Constitution Bench line from Balbir Singh to Vijaysinh Jadeja, the bag-versus-body distinction settled in Ranjan Kumar Chadha, an...
Section 42 of the NDPS Act: The Architecture of India's Most Litigated Search-and-Seizure Safeguard- Explainer
The writing of the secret information. The dispatch to the immediate superior. The reasons for a search after sunset. Section 42 of the NDPS Act is, on paper, a procedural provision — but the Supreme Court has treated ea...
Courts Won't Second-Guess Expert Valuers — What Indian Case Law Says
When a valuation is challenged, the outcome rarely turns on which number is “correct.” It turns on whether the process was sound — and Indian courts have set the bar for challengers formidably high.
Justice Sanjay Kumar Agrawal Sworn In as Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court
Justice Sanjay Kumar Agrawal took oath as Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court on September 7, administered by Governor Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde, ending a period without a regular Chief Justice that had drawn a Bar A...
NDPS Act Explained: How Five High Courts Held That Quantity Equal to the Commercial Threshold Is Not Commercial Quantity
From the Himachal Pradesh Full Bench in Ratto (2003) to the Rajasthan High Court at Jodhpur in Samrath (2026), a pan-India survey of the bail and conviction decisions that have held a recovery exactly equal to the notifi...
Section 52A NDPS Act: Disposal of Seized Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances — A Complete Legal Guide
Section 52A of the NDPS Act, 1985 governs the disposal of seized narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of all four sub-sections, the 7-step statutory procedure, landma...