https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=394764 For mixtures or preparations of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances under the NDPS Act, sentencing quantity is determined by the entire mixture, including neutral material, not only the pure drug content. Section 21 cannot be read in isolation and must operate with the Act's definitions of small and commercial quantity and the relevant quantity notifications. Notification No. S.O. 2942(E) dated 18.11.2009, inserting Note 4, was treated as clarificatory and valid because it did not create a new offence or alter the statutory scheme. The governing principle is that the NDPS Act must be construed as a whole to give effect to its quantity-based sentencing structure. en-us Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:31:48 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=394764 For mixtures or preparations of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances under the NDPS Act, sentencing quantity is determined by the entire mixture, including neutral material, not only the pure drug content. Section 21 cannot be read in isolation and must operate with the Act's definitions of small and commercial quantity and the relevant quantity notifications. Notification No. S.O. 2942(E) dated 18.11.2009, inserting Note 4, was treated as clarificatory and valid because it did not create a new offence or alter the statutory scheme. The governing principle is that the NDPS Act must be construed as a whole to give effect to its quantity-based sentencing structure. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=394764