https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=160870 A hotel room searched on prior information was treated as attracting Section 42 of the NDPS Act, because a guest room retains privacy and the officer was required to reduce the information to writing and comply with mandatory safeguards. The mere fact that the hotel is a public place did not displace those protections. The fax message and its xerox copy were also found unreliable: the contents were not properly proved, the document was illegible, and the foundational facts for receipt, authorship, transmission, and secondary evidence were not established. The result was that the prosecution materials were insufficient to sustain conviction. en-us Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 05 Jun 2014 14:29:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=160870 A hotel room searched on prior information was treated as attracting Section 42 of the NDPS Act, because a guest room retains privacy and the officer was required to reduce the information to writing and comply with mandatory safeguards. The mere fact that the hotel is a public place did not displace those protections. The fax message and its xerox copy were also found unreliable: the contents were not properly proved, the document was illegible, and the foundational facts for receipt, authorship, transmission, and secondary evidence were not established. The result was that the prosecution materials were insufficient to sustain conviction. Case-Laws Customs Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=160870