https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=263309 Section 50 of the NDPS Act applies to personal search and not to recovery from a bag or other container carried by an accused; on that basis, the recovery was treated as valid. The testimony of police witnesses was accepted because it consistently established recovery, sealing, custody and forwarding of samples, and non-joining of an independent witness did not, by itself, discredit otherwise reliable evidence. For sentencing in the commercial quantity case, the Court considered the quantity involved, the accused's age, antecedents and custody already undergone, and reduced the punishment to the minimum prescribed. en-us Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:57:01 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=263309 Section 50 of the NDPS Act applies to personal search and not to recovery from a bag or other container carried by an accused; on that basis, the recovery was treated as valid. The testimony of police witnesses was accepted because it consistently established recovery, sealing, custody and forwarding of samples, and non-joining of an independent witness did not, by itself, discredit otherwise reliable evidence. For sentencing in the commercial quantity case, the Court considered the quantity involved, the accused's age, antecedents and custody already undergone, and reduced the punishment to the minimum prescribed. Case-Laws Customs Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=263309