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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.
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...
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 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...
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...