https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310198 Section 50 of the NDPS Act applies only to personal search, and its protection cannot be extended to every recovery made during a search. Where ganja was recovered from a polythene bag carried on a kanwad, and not from the accused's body, any alleged defect in the notice or the options offered for search did not invalidate the recovery. The Court rejected the argument that non-compliance with personal-search safeguards automatically vitiates a bag recovery, and upheld the conviction despite the Section 50 challenge. en-us Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:56:49 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310198 Section 50 of the NDPS Act applies only to personal search, and its protection cannot be extended to every recovery made during a search. Where ganja was recovered from a polythene bag carried on a kanwad, and not from the accused's body, any alleged defect in the notice or the options offered for search did not invalidate the recovery. The Court rejected the argument that non-compliance with personal-search safeguards automatically vitiates a bag recovery, and upheld the conviction despite the Section 50 challenge. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310198