https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=83301 Where officers act on prior information under the NDPS Act, Section 42 requires that information to be recorded in writing and forwarded to the immediate superior officer. The Madras High Court noted that the officers had definite prior intelligence about the vehicle and persons involved, so Section 42 applied; because the information was not reduced to writing and not sent under Section 42(2), the Court treated the omission as a mandatory violation causing prejudice and held that it justified bail. The objection based on Section 50 was not treated as decisive in the vehicle-search context, and other objections were left for trial. en-us Wed, 27 Apr 1994 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:57:54 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=83301 Where officers act on prior information under the NDPS Act, Section 42 requires that information to be recorded in writing and forwarded to the immediate superior officer. The Madras High Court noted that the officers had definite prior intelligence about the vehicle and persons involved, so Section 42 applied; because the information was not reduced to writing and not sent under Section 42(2), the Court treated the omission as a mandatory violation causing prejudice and held that it justified bail. The objection based on Section 50 was not treated as decisive in the vehicle-search context, and other objections were left for trial. Case-Laws Customs Wed, 27 Apr 1994 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=83301