https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173975 Search and seizure irregularities, including the choice of panch witnesses and the manner of seizure, were treated as non-fatal because they did not discredit the recovery evidence. The Court also accepted the prosecution case despite the omission to send larger representative samples, holding that the chemical analyst's report, read with the seizure evidence, sufficiently proved narcotic material and that the analyst's lack of legal classification expertise was immaterial. Section 27(a) was held inapplicable because it covers only small quantities for personal consumption, whereas the quantities recovered exceeded the notified limits and the burden of showing personal use was not discharged. en-us Tue, 29 Aug 1989 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:07:41 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173975 Search and seizure irregularities, including the choice of panch witnesses and the manner of seizure, were treated as non-fatal because they did not discredit the recovery evidence. The Court also accepted the prosecution case despite the omission to send larger representative samples, holding that the chemical analyst's report, read with the seizure evidence, sufficiently proved narcotic material and that the analyst's lack of legal classification expertise was immaterial. Section 27(a) was held inapplicable because it covers only small quantities for personal consumption, whereas the quantities recovered exceeded the notified limits and the burden of showing personal use was not discharged. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 29 Aug 1989 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173975