https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=161432 Section 50 of the NDPS Act was construed to apply only to the search of a person, meaning the body or clothing of the accused, and not to a bag, attachi, briefcase or similar container merely carried by the accused. The Court treated the statutory phrase "search any person" according to its plain meaning and distinguished personal search from search of baggage in possession of the accused. Earlier broader observations were not treated as the governing rule. As a result, non-compliance with Section 50 did not, by itself, invalidate recovery from the container, and breach of that safeguard could not sustain acquittal on that ground alone. en-us Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:19:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=161432 Section 50 of the NDPS Act was construed to apply only to the search of a person, meaning the body or clothing of the accused, and not to a bag, attachi, briefcase or similar container merely carried by the accused. The Court treated the statutory phrase "search any person" according to its plain meaning and distinguished personal search from search of baggage in possession of the accused. Earlier broader observations were not treated as the governing rule. As a result, non-compliance with Section 50 did not, by itself, invalidate recovery from the container, and breach of that safeguard could not sustain acquittal on that ground alone. Case-Laws Companies Law Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=161432