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NDPS Act: Confession to the police officer is not admissible and hit under section 25 Evidence Act

Challenge – Conviction under NDPS Act – Brief Facts – Arrest and interrogation on the spot – Recovered contraband is Ganja – Trial court convicted – High court upheld the conviction – Analysis: Recovery of narcotics from vehicle stopped during transit – Independent panch witnesses not examined – No witnesses or documents to prove the safe keeping of samples – Inventory proceedings were not prepared in the presence of the Jurisdictional Magistrate as per section 52A NDPS Act – Confession to the police officer is not admissible and hit under section 25 Evidence Act – Prosecution failed to prove the charges.

Automatic vacation of stay: Asian Resurfacing judgment resurfaced

A Miscellaneous Application was filed in the decided case, in light of the order passed on 4th December 2019 by the Learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Pune. When the learned Magistrate was called upon to proceed with the trial on the ground of automatic vacation of stay after the expiry of a period of six months, the learned Magistrate expressed a view that when the jurisdictional High Court had passed an order of stay, a Court subordinate to the High Court cannot pass any order contrary to the order of stay. By the order dated 15th October 2020, this Court held that when the stay granted by the High Court automatically expires, unless an extension is granted for good reasons, the Trial Court, on expiry of a period of six months, must set a date for trial and go ahead with the same. Later, an attempt was made to seek clarification of the law laid down in the case of Asian Resurfacing [(2018) 16 SCC 299]. This Court, by the order dated 25th April 2022, did not apply the direction issued in Asian Resurfacing to the facts of the case before it. An attempt was made to apply the directions to an order of stay of the order of the learned Single Judge of the High Court passed by a Division Bench in a Letters Patent Appeal. Hence reference to Larger bench and the same was decided by Constitution bench and held the Asian Resurfacing case as per in curium.

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