Insights
NDPS insights
Plain-language explainers on the NDPS Act and its procedure, published regularly.
Bail
Section 37 of the NDPS Act: why bail is harder in commercial-quantity cases
How the twin conditions of Section 37 NDPS work, which cases they cover, and what that means for a bail application.
Search and seizureSection 50 of the NDPS Act: the right to be searched before a Gazetted Officer or Magistrate
What Section 50 of the NDPS Act requires before a personal search, and how courts have treated non-compliance.
Statements and noticesStatements under Section 67 of the NDPS Act: are they admissible?
What Section 67 of the NDPS Act allows, and what the Supreme Court held in Tofan Singh about statements recorded by NDPS officers.