Court : Supreme Court of India
Reported in : 2001(1)ALD(Cri)71; 2001ALLMR(Cri)163(SC); 2001(1)BLJR221; 2001CriLJ165; 2000(72)ECC457; 2001(1)KLT86(SC); 2000(7)SCALE446; (2000)8SCC590; [2000]Supp4SCR539; 2001(1)LC212(SC
..... of gazetted rank of the departments of central excise, narcotics, customs, revenue intelligence of any other department of the central government or of the border security force as is empowered in this behalf by general or special order by the central government, or any such officer of the revenue, drugs control, ..... (2) of section 41 of the narcotic drugs & psychotropic substances act entitles any officer of gazetted rank of the departments of central excise, narcotic, customs, revenue intelligence or any other department of the central government or of the border security force who has been empowered in that behalf by general or special order ..... acting under section 42.42. power of entry, search, seizure and arrest without warrant or authorisation.-(1) any such officer (being an officer superior in rank to a peon, sepoy or constable) of the departments of central excise, narcotics, customs, revenue intelligence or any other department of the central government or of the border security force .....
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Reported in : AIR1991SC45; 1991CriLJ97; 1990(2)Crimes435(SC); 1990(48)ELT496(SC); JT1990(1)SC503; 1990(1)SCALE509; (1990)2SCC409; [1990]2SCR63; 1990(2)LC373(SC)
..... article is kept or concealed. section 41(2) empowers certain gazetted officers of central excise, narcotics, customs, revenue intelligence, etc., of the central government or the border security force, or any such officer of the revenue, excise, police, drug control, or other departments of the state governments empowered by general or special orders in this ..... any officer of the department of central excise, narcotics, customs, revenue intelligence or border security force or any class of such officers with the powers of an officer-in-charge of a police station for the investigation of the offences under this act.(2) the state government may, by notification published in the official gazette, invest ..... by filing a police report as is evident from the two provisos to section 8(2) of the act..on the conclusion of an enquiry under section 8(1), therefore, if the officer of the force is of the opinion that there is sufficient evidence or reasonable ground of suspicion against the accused, he .....
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Reported in : AIR1998SC769; JT1998(1)SC133; 1998(1)SCALE114; (1998)2SCC59a; [1998]1SCR211
..... be confiscated and handed over to the concerned state forest department along with offenders, vehicles, tools and implements for prosecution under the relevant acts.35. for the proper and effective implementation ..... and protection of wildlife.34. to ensure that timber/forest produce smuggled across the border may not be used as a cover for trade in illegal timber, it is directed that all such timber seized by customs/border security force should not be redeemed in favour of individuals who are smuggling it but should ..... conferred on the forest officers in many other states in the country.22. the state governments shall be responsible for providing all facilities including security and police force to strictly enforce forest protection measures to stop illicit felling, removal and utilisation of such timber. the chief secretary shall review the various .....
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Reported in : AIR2003SC4311; 2004(1)ALD(Cri)19; 2003CriLJ4996; 2003(89)ECC697; JT2003(Suppl2)SC459; 2003(7)SCALE649; (2003)8SCC449
..... officer of gazetted rank of the departments of central excise, narcotics, customs, revenue intelligence or any other department of the central government or of the border security force as is empowered in this behalf by general or special order by the central government, or any such officer of the revenue, drugs control, excise ..... acting under section 42. 42. power of entry, search, seizure and arrest without warrant or authorisation. - (1) any such officer (being an officer superior in rank to a peon, sepoy or constable) of the departments of central excise, narcotics, customs, revenue intelligence or any other department of the central government or of the border security force ..... to his immediate official superior. this was the statutory provision at the relevant time. by the narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (amendment) act, 2001 which came into force on 2nd october, 2001, section 42(2) was amended whereunder the information taken down in writing under sub-section (1) or grounds .....
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Reported in : 2000CriLJ4635; JT2000(10)SC506; 2000(6)SCALE371; (2000)7SCC632; [2000]Supp3SCR250; 2000(2)LC1406(SC)
..... 42 provides that any authorised officer of the departments of central excise, narcotics, customs, revenue intelligence or any other department of the central government or the border security force, specially empowered by general or special order by the central government, or any such officer of the revenue, drugs control, excise, police or any ..... -incharge of a police station for the investigation of the offences under the act. the provisions of the crpc, 1973 have been made applicable in so ..... or the conveyance may be fired upon.9. section 53 of the act empowers the central government, after consultation with the state government to invest any officer of the department of central excise, narcotics, customs, revenue intelligence or border security force or any other class of such officers with the powers of an officer .....
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Reported in : 108(2009)CLT681(SC); 2009CriLJ4299; JT2009(10)SC360; 2009(5)MPHT123(SC); 2009(II)OLR(SC)628; 2009(10)SCALE255; (2009)8SCC539:2009AIRSCW5265
..... vested in gazetted officers of the departments of central excise, narcotics, customs, revenue intelligence or any other department of the central government or of the border security force, empowered in that behalf by a general or special order of the state government to arrest any person, who he has reason to believe to have ..... act 9 of 2001. it reads as under:42. power of entry, search, seizure and arrest without warrant or authorisation.--(1) any such officer (being an officer superior in rank to a peon, sepoy or constable) of the departments of central excise, narcotics, customs, revenue intelligence or any other department of the central government or of the border security force ..... to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances to which india has become a party.3. let us consider the scheme of the ndps act and its relevant provisions. the 1985 act came into force on 14.11.1985. certain provisions were subsequently amended in 1989 and in 2001. chapter iv deals with offences and penalties .....
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Reported in : 2007CriLJ758; 2006(13)SCALE186; 2007AIRSCW44; (2007)2SCC(Cri)382; (2007)1Crimes236(SC); 2007(2)KCCRSN57; 2007(2)AIRKarR22(SC)
..... moosaram was then attacked by 4-5 persons. it was alleged that pitram, a.1, his brother, who at the relevant time had been working at jaisalmer in border security force, having 'bakda' in his hand attacked the deceased, as a result whereof he fell down, whereafter his associates started assaulting him with respective weapons in their hands. ..... of the deceased, although named appellant in her statement under section 161 of the code of criminal procedure code, 1973 before the investigating officer, she did not attribute any overt act on his part. (iii) presence of p.ws. 8-khyaliram and p.w.9-sarjeet singh at the scene of occurrence was highly doubtful as their statements ..... indian penal code, other accused, who were four in number, were acquitted, inter alia, on the premise that they had not been properly identified and no individual overt acts was attributed to them. accused no. 1 is not before us. he, thus, has accepted the verdict. 4. mr. uday umesh lalit, learned senior counsel appearing .....
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..... print media that many innocent, defenceless people particularly poor, politicians, statesmen, government officials, police officials, army personnel inclusive of the jawans belonging to border security force have been mercilessly gunned down. no one can deny these stark facts and naked truth by adopting an ostrich like attitude completely ignoring the impending danger ..... scale if they are brought to and convicted, deterrent punishment will follow, and (3) to deter criminals who are forced to undergo long-term imprisonment from repeating their criminal acts in future. even from the point of view of reformative form of punishment prolonged and indefinite detention is justified not ..... released through easy remissions or substituted form of punishments without undergoing at least a minimum period of imprisonment of fourteen years which may in fact act as a sufficient deterrent which may prevent criminals from committing offences. in most parts of our country, particularly in the north, cases are .....
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..... print media that many innocent, defenceless people particularly poor, politicians, statesmen, government officials, police officials, army personnel inclusive of the jawans belonging to border security force have been mercilessly gunned down. no one can deny these stark facts and naked truth by adopting an ostrich like attitude completely ignoring the impending danger ..... scale if they are brought to and convicted, deterrent punishment will follow, and (3) to deter criminals who are forced to undergo long-term imprisonment from repeating their criminal acts in future. even from the point of view of reformative form of punishment prolonged and indefinite detention is justified not ..... released through easy remissions or substituted form of punishments without undergoing at least a minimum period of imprisonment of fourteen years which may in fact act as a sufficient deterrent which may prevent criminals from committing offences. in most parts of our country, particularly in the north, cases are .....
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Reported in : (1971)3SCC936; 1971(III)LC111(SC)
..... , and that the petitioner styling himself as the commander-in-chief of the naga army also surreptitiously visited china for the aforesaid purposes between 1966 and 1968. the security forced deployed at the border arrested the petitioner and some other while they were returning from china, seized from them arms and ammunition manufactured in china brought by them from that country together with ..... the said 131 other persons and issued warrants to the district magistrates of delhi and other places where the petitioner and those others were in detention under the preventive detention act, 1950, to place the petitioner and those others under arrest. the district magistrate also asked, it appears the kohima police officer to investigate and expedite his report to him.7 .....
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