https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=159523 Members of the Armed Forces prosecuted for a civil offence under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 remain entitled to the statute's mandatory safeguards; Article 33 and the Army Act, 1950 do not authorise selective disregard of search-and-seizure requirements, and non-compliance is fatal to the prosecution. Section 50 is confined to the search of a person and does not extend to a search of a private residence or other premises. On the facts, the recovery was from a residence, so Section 50 did not apply, but the prosecution still failed because the mandatory NDPS safeguards were not satisfied. en-us Wed, 24 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:55:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=159523 Members of the Armed Forces prosecuted for a civil offence under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 remain entitled to the statute's mandatory safeguards; Article 33 and the Army Act, 1950 do not authorise selective disregard of search-and-seizure requirements, and non-compliance is fatal to the prosecution. Section 50 is confined to the search of a person and does not extend to a search of a private residence or other premises. On the facts, the recovery was from a residence, so Section 50 did not apply, but the prosecution still failed because the mandatory NDPS safeguards were not satisfied. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 24 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=159523