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Non-compliance of section 50 of NDPS Act

Supreme Court issues notice to Intelligence Officer for non-compliance of Section 50 of the NDPS Act

The petitioner relied upon S.K. Raju v. State of West Bengal, (2018) 9 SCC 708 which had observed that wherever the search of a person takes place, the requirement of mandatory compliance of Section 50 of NDPS was attracted, irrespective of whether the contraband was recovered from the body of the person or not.

Legislation Updates Rules & Regulations

NDPS (Seizure, Storage, Sampling and Disposal) Rules, 2022

On 23-12-2022, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) has issued the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Seizure, Storage, Sampling and Disposal) Rules, 2022.

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court awards Rs. 25 lakhs damages to ‘Daawat’ Basmati Rice in a trade mark infringement suit; restrains manufacturer from selling counterfeit ‘Daawat’ Products

Delhi High Court: In a suit for permanent injunction and damages for infringement of marks, passing off and unfair competition

Case Briefs High Courts

Orissa High Court| Sanction must be issued under Section 197 of CrPC for taking cognizance on having ‘reasonable nexus’ with official duty

Orissa High Court: In a criminal miscellaneous petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (‘Code’) challenging the

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Why did ITAT decide to delete the addition of streedhan as ‘unexplained investment’ for the purposes of income assessment? Read to know

Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), Jaipur: While deciding the instant appeal revolving around the addition of the assessee’s generational streedhan as unexplained

Case Briefs High Courts

Granite Stones Trafficking| Kerala HC directs Geologist to release vehicles wrongfully seized for want of Mineral Transit Pass

Kerala High Court: N. Nagaresh, J., directed the Geologist of Department of mining & geology, Manjeri to release wrongfully seized vehicles of

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Formation of reasons to believe for search & seizure under Income Tax Act is an administrative function, to be tested by judicial restraint: SC

Supreme Court: The Division Bench of Hemant Gupta* and V. Ramasubramanian, JJ., held that non-supply of satisfaction note to the assessee will

Case Briefs High Courts

Karnataka High Court | Writ petition by XIAOMI India premature when alternate remedy available under S. 37 FEMA, 1999 left unattended

Karnataka High Court: S G Pandit, J. declared the present writ petition filed by XIAOMI India under Article 226 of

Case Briefs High Courts

Gauhati HC | Recovery/seizure of contraband not mandatory; arrest, detention or conviction under NDPS Act can be based on other convincing factors

Gauhati High Court: A bail application under Section 438 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, (CrPC) was denied by Sanjay Kumar Medhi,

Experts Corner Kapil Madan

Procedural Compliances in relation to Search, Seizure and Arrest under NDPS Act, 1985

by Kapil Madan†, Gurmukh Singh Arora†† and Pulkit Pandey†††
Cite as: 2021 SCC OnLine Blog Exp 70

Case Briefs High Courts

Is Magistrate empowered to pass order for disposal of property under CrPC when vehicle is seized under U.P. Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act? All HC examines

Allahabad High Court: Dr Yogendra Kumar Srivastava, J., held that the Magistrate is denuded of his power to pass any order under

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Explained: Scope of ED’s power to freeze bank accounts under Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of SA Bobde, CJ and AS Bopanna* and V. Ramasubramanian, JJ has held that under the Prevention

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

PMLA | Prevention of Money Laundering Act: A special Act with stringent provisions – must be interpreted strictly in the absence of ambiguity

Appellate Tribunal for Prevention of Money Laundering Act: The Bench of Manmohan Singh, J. (Chairman) and G.C. Mishra (Member) set aside Adjudicating

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Claim for ‘disability pension’ denied on grounds of minimal exposure to military training

Armed Forces Tribunal, Lucknow Bench: The Bench comprising of S.V.S Rathore J. and Air Marshal BBP Sinha, Member dismissed an original application