https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=353243 In a narcotics prosecution based on chance recovery, prior-information safeguards under Sections 42 and 50 were treated as inapplicable on the facts, but the prosecution still had to prove a reliable chain of custody and substantial compliance with post-seizure safeguards. The record failed to show proper sealing, storage, sampling, malkhana accounting, or timely dispatch of samples to the forensic laboratory, and the delay in the forensic process further undermined the material's genuineness. These cumulative defects made the recovery and forensic result unsafe to sustain the statutory presumption, leading to setting aside of the conviction and sentence and the appellant's acquittal. en-us Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 30 Dec 2017 09:06:20 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=353243 In a narcotics prosecution based on chance recovery, prior-information safeguards under Sections 42 and 50 were treated as inapplicable on the facts, but the prosecution still had to prove a reliable chain of custody and substantial compliance with post-seizure safeguards. The record failed to show proper sealing, storage, sampling, malkhana accounting, or timely dispatch of samples to the forensic laboratory, and the delay in the forensic process further undermined the material's genuineness. These cumulative defects made the recovery and forensic result unsafe to sustain the statutory presumption, leading to setting aside of the conviction and sentence and the appellant's acquittal. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=353243