https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=180578 Credible official witness testimony was treated as sufficient to sustain an NDPS conviction despite the absence of independent witnesses, non-joining of a Gazetted Officer, a two-day delay in sending the sample for chemical analysis, omission to prepare the CFSL form at the spot, and minor discrepancies about the weighing scale. The Court viewed these irregularities as non-fatal because they did not affect the core recovery or show sample tampering, so the conviction was affirmed. On sentencing, the Court exercised its power under criminal procedure law to direct that the sentences in the two NDPS cases run concurrently. en-us Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:25:06 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=180578 Credible official witness testimony was treated as sufficient to sustain an NDPS conviction despite the absence of independent witnesses, non-joining of a Gazetted Officer, a two-day delay in sending the sample for chemical analysis, omission to prepare the CFSL form at the spot, and minor discrepancies about the weighing scale. The Court viewed these irregularities as non-fatal because they did not affect the core recovery or show sample tampering, so the conviction was affirmed. On sentencing, the Court exercised its power under criminal procedure law to direct that the sentences in the two NDPS cases run concurrently. Case-Laws Customs Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=180578