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, and the most recent Supreme Court reaffirmation in Surat Singh (2026).