https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=181753 Under the NDPS Act, Section 37 bail rigour was not met where the prosecution case depended mainly on Section 67 statements that were retracted and lacked independent corroboration. The Court treated such statements, especially when alleged to have been made under duress, as unsafe to rely on without supporting material, and noted that co-accused statements alone could not constitute substantive evidence against the petitioner. In the absence of recovery from the petitioner and with no reliable corroborative evidence, there were reasonable grounds to doubt guilt, so the statutory threshold for refusing bail was not satisfied and bail was granted. en-us Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:25:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=181753 Under the NDPS Act, Section 37 bail rigour was not met where the prosecution case depended mainly on Section 67 statements that were retracted and lacked independent corroboration. The Court treated such statements, especially when alleged to have been made under duress, as unsafe to rely on without supporting material, and noted that co-accused statements alone could not constitute substantive evidence against the petitioner. In the absence of recovery from the petitioner and with no reliable corroborative evidence, there were reasonable grounds to doubt guilt, so the statutory threshold for refusing bail was not satisfied and bail was granted. Case-Laws Customs Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=181753