https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=183954 Recovery from a vehicle was treated as outside the scope of Section 50 of the NDPS Act, so the safeguard for personal search did not apply to contraband found in the glove compartment. The seizure was accepted despite hostile panch witnesses because they admitted their signatures on the recovery papers and the official witnesses consistently supported the recovery and chase. Minor variation in sample weight after laboratory testing was treated as natural, and no legal requirement was found for the test form to be completed at the spot on the same day. The Section 67 statement was not the basis of conviction, which remained supported by independent recovery evidence. en-us Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 12:10:21 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=183954 Recovery from a vehicle was treated as outside the scope of Section 50 of the NDPS Act, so the safeguard for personal search did not apply to contraband found in the glove compartment. The seizure was accepted despite hostile panch witnesses because they admitted their signatures on the recovery papers and the official witnesses consistently supported the recovery and chase. Minor variation in sample weight after laboratory testing was treated as natural, and no legal requirement was found for the test form to be completed at the spot on the same day. The Section 67 statement was not the basis of conviction, which remained supported by independent recovery evidence. Case-Laws Customs Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=183954