Supreme Court of India
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What the Court ordered
In the result the conviction of the appellant under Section 20(b)(ii) of the Act and sentence of 10 years R.I. are set aside.
Judgment, page 6
From the headnote
The appellant, a foreign national, was convicted by the trial court under Section 20(b)(ii) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 and sentenced to undergo ten years’ rigorous imprisonment and to pay a fine of one lakh rupees, and in default, to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for six months. According to the prosecution, two cylindrical pieces of charas, weighing 7 gms. and 5 gms. respectively, were seized from the appellant by a Police Patrol Party and on chemical analysis of one of the pieces, it was found that the substance contained charas.
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