https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=401733 Section 52A of the NDPS Act requires seized narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances to be forwarded to the officer in-charge of the nearest police station or an officer empowered under Section 53, after which the competent officer may seek Magistrate certification of the inventory, photographs and samples. The applicable notifications dated 10.05.2007 and 16.01.2015 similarly contemplate action by that competent officer and prescribe the manner of inventory and certification. Where the application was moved by an officer who was neither shown to be the officer in-charge of the police station nor established to be an officer empowered under Section 53, the application was contrary to the statutory scheme and notifications, and the consequential orders were unsustainable. en-us Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 08:25:11 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=401733 Section 52A of the NDPS Act requires seized narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances to be forwarded to the officer in-charge of the nearest police station or an officer empowered under Section 53, after which the competent officer may seek Magistrate certification of the inventory, photographs and samples. The applicable notifications dated 10.05.2007 and 16.01.2015 similarly contemplate action by that competent officer and prescribe the manner of inventory and certification. Where the application was moved by an officer who was neither shown to be the officer in-charge of the police station nor established to be an officer empowered under Section 53, the application was contrary to the statutory scheme and notifications, and the consequential orders were unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=401733