https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=346967 Under the NDPS Act, an officer authorised under Section 53 may investigate, search, seize and arrest without first lodging an FIR, because the Act does not make an FIR a mandatory precondition and the Code of Criminal Procedure applies only where consistent with the Act. The statute also differentiates between police investigation, which may end in a police report, and authorised-officer investigation, which leads to cognizance on a complaint by that officer. On quashing, the Court noted material linking the petitioner as a business associate of the main accused and indicated use of associated premises for manufacture of a psychotropic substance, so no clear case of absence of offence was shown at the investigation stage. The quashing request was rejected. en-us Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:58:30 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=346967 Under the NDPS Act, an officer authorised under Section 53 may investigate, search, seize and arrest without first lodging an FIR, because the Act does not make an FIR a mandatory precondition and the Code of Criminal Procedure applies only where consistent with the Act. The statute also differentiates between police investigation, which may end in a police report, and authorised-officer investigation, which leads to cognizance on a complaint by that officer. On quashing, the Court noted material linking the petitioner as a business associate of the main accused and indicated use of associated premises for manufacture of a psychotropic substance, so no clear case of absence of offence was shown at the investigation stage. The quashing request was rejected. Case-Laws Customs Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=346967