JAMMU, Oct. 9 -- The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has set aside the conviction and 10-year rigorous imprisonment awarded to two persons in an alleged 807-gram heroin recovery case, holding that material contradictions in prosecution evidence and failure to establish compliance with mandatory safeguards under the NDPS Act rendered the conviction unsustainable.
Justice Sanjay Parihar, while allowing the criminal appeal filed by Mohammad Shafi Lone and Bilal Ahmad Dar, observed that the prosecution had failed to establish beyond reasonable doubt that the contraband was recovered from the appellants in the manner alleged.
The Court quashed the judgment of conviction dated May 24, 2023, passed by the Additional District and Session...