Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 846 The High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur set aside the conviction of Farida Mirza in a 2018 narcotics case, holding that the prosecution failed to establish beyond reasonable doubt that all seized packets contained ganja and that key procedural safeguards under the NDPS Act were not followed. Justice…
Citation : 2006 Local Law (CG) 285 In a detailed judgment, Justice Dilip Raosaheb Deshmukh of the Chhattisgarh High Court has set aside convictions handed down in December 2005 in a large ganja seizure case, acquitting two men who had been sentenced to 12 years’ rigorous imprisonment and fined ₹1 lakh each. The court found…
Citation : 2006 Local Law (CG) 35 A court today upheld the conviction of a man found carrying a regzine bag containing nearly eight kilograms of ganja, rejecting his arguments about procedural lapses and shortcomings in the prosecution’s evidence. The appeal challenged a trial court’s verdict dated 13 February 2004, which had convicted the accused…
Justice R.S. Garg ruled that failure to prove safe custody and sealing of seized ganja, coupled with non-examination of key witnesses, rendered the prosecution’s case unreliable and the conviction unsustainable. In a judgment reinforcing the strict evidentiary standards required under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act), the Chhattisgarh High Court acquitted…
Justice R.S. Garg ruled that failure to prove safe custody and sealing of seized ganja, coupled with non-examination of key witnesses, rendered the prosecution’s case unreliable and the conviction unsustainable. In a judgment reinforcing the strict evidentiary standards required under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act), the Chhattisgarh High Court acquitted…
Citation : 2001 Local Law (CG) 47 The Chhattisgarh High Court has set aside earlier convictions under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act after finding serious gaps in the prosecution’s handling of seized evidence. In a judgment delivered by Justice R.S. Garg, the court overturned a 1999 trial court conviction that had sentenced Savitri…