1999 (10) TMI 703

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.... and Psychotropic Substances Act has not strictly been complied with by P.W. 8, the Officer who conducted the search. According to the learned Counsel for the appellant the searching officer should have told the person who was subjected to search that he had a right to be searched in the presence of a Gazetted Officer or a Magistrate. In this case P.W. 8 has deposed that she told the appellant tha....

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....unsel then contended that one of the panch witnesses was not an independent witness inasmuch as he had obliged the police in other cases also. We are not inclined to say that if a person happened to witness other instances that would denude him of his independent character. 4. The last attempt made by the learned Counsel was based on a truncated sentence found in the cross-examination of P.W. 1....