Case Law Analysis
|Supreme Court of India
Section 50 NDPS Act Inapplicable to Object Searches | SC Clarifies Scope : SC
The Supreme Court ruled Section 50 NDPS Act applies only to personal searches, not searches of objects carried by the accused. Conviction under Sections 8 and 21 NDPS Act upheld but sentence reduced from 14 to 10 years. Impacts NDPS prosecutions involving object-based recoveries.