[ High Courts ]
The Lucknow Bench held that Section 36A(1)(d) of the NDPS Act is pari materia with Section 44(1)(b) of PMLA, making the pre-cognizance hearing proviso under BNSS Section 223 equally applicable to NCB complaints filed after 1 July 2024.
2026-05-21 · 6 min read
[ High Courts ]
The Uttarakhand High Court granted bail to an NDPS accused after finding that the arrest memo and inventory report bore an FIR number that could not have existed at the time they were purportedly prepared.
2026-05-20 · 5 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A Division Bench led by Justice Ujjal Bhuyan holds that K.A. Najeeb remains binding law and that prolonged pre-trial detention under the UAP Act cannot be sustained by invoking Section 43-D(5) alone.
2026-05-20 · 10 min read