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The case originated in a case pertaining to the arrest of a Rajasthan-based lawyer Sumer Singh Rajpurohit in 1996 by the Basankantha Police following alleged recovery of drugs from his hotel room in Palanpur.
The accused has been charged under sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. Solanki was previously booked in a prohibition case.
The High Court said that prolonged incarceration militates against Article 21 of the Constitution and that conditional liberty must override the statutory embargo under Section 37, NDPS Act.
The Governor added that the ‘War on Drugs 2.0' is now going on and in 2023, 72.9 kg heroin, 147.1 kg opium, 195.2 kg ganja (marijuana), 111.3 kg brown sugar, 155.3 kg Methamphetamine tablets, and 33.3 kg pseudoephedrine tablets were seized, among others.
The Calcutta High Court's Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri has recently ordered the Assistant Director General of Police (North Bengal) to conduct a probe into the difference in weight between the drugs...