https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=291578 Where an NDPS offence is punishable with imprisonment up to ten years, the investigation must be completed and the charge-sheet filed within sixty days under the proviso to Section 167(2) CrPC. The alleged recovery was treated as falling below commercial quantity and within Section 21(b) of the NDPS Act, so the sixty-day limit applied. Because the accused remained in custody beyond that period, applied for bail before filing of the charge-sheet, and was ready to furnish bail, the right to default bail had crystallised and could not be defeated by a later charge-sheet. Rejection of bail was therefore unsustainable. en-us Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:01:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=291578 Where an NDPS offence is punishable with imprisonment up to ten years, the investigation must be completed and the charge-sheet filed within sixty days under the proviso to Section 167(2) CrPC. The alleged recovery was treated as falling below commercial quantity and within Section 21(b) of the NDPS Act, so the sixty-day limit applied. Because the accused remained in custody beyond that period, applied for bail before filing of the charge-sheet, and was ready to furnish bail, the right to default bail had crystallised and could not be defeated by a later charge-sheet. Rejection of bail was therefore unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=291578