Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 · Chapter V: Procedure
Section 55: Police to take charge of articles seized and delivered
An officer-in-charge of a police station shall take charge of and keep in safe custody, pending the orders of the Magistrate, all articles seized under this Act within the local area of that police station and which may be delivered to him, and shall allow any officer who may accompany such articles to the police station or who may be deputed for the purpose, to affix his seal to such articles or to take samples of and from them and all samples so taken shall also be sealed with a seal of the officer-in-charge of the police station.
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Supreme Court judgments citing the section 55
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Bharat Aambale v. The State of Chhattisgarh
Appellant had been convicted by the Courts below under Section 20(b)(ii)(c) of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. The issue was whether the conviction could be said to have been vitiated because of…
- Rajinder Kumar v. Ncb
- Mohd.Altaf v. Narcotics Control Bureau
- Syed Abu Ala v. Ncb
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Bharti Arora v. The State of Haryana
Whether the Special Judge could have conducted the proceedings against the present appellant for the offence punishable u/s.58 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985; whether the Special Judge was…
- Mahender Singh v. State (Nct of Delhi)
- Pankaj @ Pankaj Vaid @ Amit @ Sanju Baba v. State (Nct of Delhi)
- Rajat Gupta v. State NCT of Delhi
- Ashok Kumar @ Lala v. The State NCT of Delhi
- Ranjan Biswas v. Stat of NCT of Delhi
- Deepak Nagiya v. State NCT of Delhi
- Amina v. State NCT of Delhi
- Salauddin v. State NCT of Delhi
- Rizwan Khan v. The State of Chhattisgarh
- Mohanlal v. The State of Punjab
- State of Himachal Pradesh v. Trilok Chand & Anr.
- State of Rajasthan v. Shanti
- Babubhai Odhavji Patel, Etc. Etc. v. State of Gujarat
- The State of West Bengal and Ors. v. Babu Chakraborty
- Gurbax Singh v. State of Haryana
- Karnail Singh v. State of Rajasthan