KOCHI: Mushrooms and magic mushrooms are neither scheduled narcotic or psychotropic substances nor mixtures as defined under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act but merely fungi, Kerala High Court (HC) has noted while granting bail to a Bengaluru man in an NDPS case.The petitioner, Rahul Rai, was arrested by Mananthavady excise officials from…
NEW DELHI: Ending a 20-year-ego battle between a judicial officer and an IPS officer, Supreme Court Friday quashed summons and bailable warrants issued by a trial judge to then Kurukshetra SP Bharti Arora to show cause why ‘her role in letting off an accused in a narcotic drug case be not investigated’.A bench of Justices…
NEW DELHI: Observing that rigorous bail provisions in statutes like PMLA, anti-terror law UAPA and NDPS Act cannot become a ‘tool’ to keep an undertrial accused in jail for unreasonably long time, Supreme Court on Thursday held that the requirement of expeditious disposal of cases must be read into these statutes as inordinate delay in…
The Noida Police have filed a chargesheet against YouTuber Elvish Yadav and eight others in the snake venom-rave party case. The 1200-page charge sheet includes evidence of exotic snake smuggling and rave events.Elvish Yadav was detained on March 17 for allegedly supplying snake venom at a suspected rave party in Noida. He was later brought…
