https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=152012 The statutory appeal under section 68-O of the NDPS Act is confined to a genuine person aggrieved by an order of the competent authority. An Intelligence Officer who merely investigates, issues the initial freezing order under section 68-F(1), and has no further statutory role in the adjudication is not a party to the lis and cannot contest the affected person's case before the competent authority. On that scheme, neither the officer nor the Narcotics Control Bureau qualifies as a person aggrieved, so the appellate remedy was unavailable to them and the appeal was not maintainable. en-us Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:07:21 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=152012 The statutory appeal under section 68-O of the NDPS Act is confined to a genuine person aggrieved by an order of the competent authority. An Intelligence Officer who merely investigates, issues the initial freezing order under section 68-F(1), and has no further statutory role in the adjudication is not a party to the lis and cannot contest the affected person's case before the competent authority. On that scheme, neither the officer nor the Narcotics Control Bureau qualifies as a person aggrieved, so the appellate remedy was unavailable to them and the appeal was not maintainable. Case-Laws FEMA Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=152012