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 each of its safeguards as substantive. From Balbir Singh to Karnail Singh, an explainer.