CITY COURT ACQUITS 4 IN DRUGS CASE

New Delhi - A city court acquitted four persons in a Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances (Prevention) Act case since the prosecution did not
follow the prescribed rules while conducting the raid.

Additional Session Judge Indermeet Kaur Kochhar, in her order, said: "The
mandate of section 42 (1) and (2) has not been complied with and the secret
information received has not been sent to the superior officers forthwith
as per provisions of section 42 (2) of the NDPS Act. Since a mandatory
provision has not been complied with, the accused persons are entitled to
an acquittal on this ground alone".

The case dates back to Dec 1996. According to the prosecution case, a
secret information was received by the Narcotics Bureau that one Rashid Ali
along with some others was coming to Delhi with 2 kg of heroin. The NCB
officials later on the day arrested Rashid and three others from hotel Al
Islam inside Turkman Gate and recovered more than 2 kg heroin.