India, Jan. 20 -- A special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) court has refused to send reserve samples of an alleged Rs.2.22-crore Tramadol seizure for retesting to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), Hyderabad, after the state forensic laboratory reported that the seizure did not contain any NDPS substance.

Special judge Arvind Manohar Bhandarwar last week refused permission to forward the reserved samples, holding that "merely because, result is not favourable, cannot be a ground to send the samples for retesting".

The NDPS Act "does not permit re-sampling or re-testing of samples" as a matter of course and such a step can be allowed only in "extremely exceptional circumstances, for cogent reasons", the co...