https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=351904 Non-compliance with Section 50 NDPS safeguards, unsafe handling of seal and sample parcels, and failure to preserve a representative sample were treated as serious defects affecting the legality and reliability of the recovery. The analysis notes that no notice of the right to search before a Gazetted Officer or Magistrate was given, the seal and samples remained with the investigating officer for an undue period, and the recovery from loose tablets and unlabelled syrup bottles did not inspire confidence. Defence evidence and the absence of the independent witness further weakened the prosecution, and the conviction and sentence were held unsustainable. en-us Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 04 Dec 2017 08:13:32 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=351904 Non-compliance with Section 50 NDPS safeguards, unsafe handling of seal and sample parcels, and failure to preserve a representative sample were treated as serious defects affecting the legality and reliability of the recovery. The analysis notes that no notice of the right to search before a Gazetted Officer or Magistrate was given, the seal and samples remained with the investigating officer for an undue period, and the recovery from loose tablets and unlabelled syrup bottles did not inspire confidence. Defence evidence and the absence of the independent witness further weakened the prosecution, and the conviction and sentence were held unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=351904