https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=458392 Compliance with the NDPS Act sampling procedure was central to the bail assessment under Section 37. The Court held that seized contraband must be dealt with in the prescribed manner under Sections 52 and 52A and the standing orders, and that separate packets cannot be indiscriminately emptied into one mixed mass before sampling unless the required conditions are met. Because the recovered packets were mixed together before representative samples were drawn, the Court treated the breach as creating reasonable grounds to doubt the prosecution case at the bail stage. On that basis, the twin conditions for bail were satisfied and the applicants were released on bail. en-us Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:42:46 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=458392 Compliance with the NDPS Act sampling procedure was central to the bail assessment under Section 37. The Court held that seized contraband must be dealt with in the prescribed manner under Sections 52 and 52A and the standing orders, and that separate packets cannot be indiscriminately emptied into one mixed mass before sampling unless the required conditions are met. Because the recovered packets were mixed together before representative samples were drawn, the Court treated the breach as creating reasonable grounds to doubt the prosecution case at the bail stage. On that basis, the twin conditions for bail were satisfied and the applicants were released on bail. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=458392