https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=183955 Section 50 of the NDPS Act was treated as confined to personal search, so it did not apply where contraband was recovered from concealed cavities in a vehicle. The court also accepted that hostile independent witnesses did not by itself discredit trustworthy official testimony, and that the absence of signatures of every raiding officer on the recovery memo did not vitiate the recovery. Custody and sampling objections failed because the sample integrity was proved and the chemical examiner's report was admissible. The confessional statement, found voluntary and corroborated by the recovery, supported the prosecution case and the conviction was upheld. en-us Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 12:13:27 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=183955 Section 50 of the NDPS Act was treated as confined to personal search, so it did not apply where contraband was recovered from concealed cavities in a vehicle. The court also accepted that hostile independent witnesses did not by itself discredit trustworthy official testimony, and that the absence of signatures of every raiding officer on the recovery memo did not vitiate the recovery. Custody and sampling objections failed because the sample integrity was proved and the chemical examiner's report was admissible. The confessional statement, found voluntary and corroborated by the recovery, supported the prosecution case and the conviction was upheld. Case-Laws Customs Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=183955