https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=255734 Section 50 of the NDPS Act was treated as confined to personal search and not to search of a vehicle in a public place, so the seizure from the Ambassador car was not invalidated on that basis. The court also held that Section 42 was not violated on the facts proved, and the recovery memo prepared later at the departmental office, together with delayed production of seized articles, was not fatal because seizure, sealing, sampling, and intact chain of custody were proved. Confessional statements under Section 67 were accepted as voluntary and usable where no timely allegation of coercion was made, and such statements, with corroborating recovery evidence, could support conviction. en-us Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 18:07:17 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=255734 Section 50 of the NDPS Act was treated as confined to personal search and not to search of a vehicle in a public place, so the seizure from the Ambassador car was not invalidated on that basis. The court also held that Section 42 was not violated on the facts proved, and the recovery memo prepared later at the departmental office, together with delayed production of seized articles, was not fatal because seizure, sealing, sampling, and intact chain of custody were proved. Confessional statements under Section 67 were accepted as voluntary and usable where no timely allegation of coercion was made, and such statements, with corroborating recovery evidence, could support conviction. Case-Laws Customs Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=255734