{"id":141201,"date":"1999-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-04-06T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/thandi-ram-vs-state-of-haryana-on-7-april-1999"},"modified":"2019-03-13T04:11:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T22:41:02","slug":"thandi-ram-vs-state-of-haryana-on-7-april-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/thandi-ram-vs-state-of-haryana-on-7-april-1999","title":{"rendered":"Thandi Ram vs State Of Haryana on 7 April, 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Thandi Ram vs State Of Haryana on 7 April, 1999<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 2000 CriLJ 588, 2000 (69) ECC 634, JT 1999 (3) SC 231, 1999 (3) SCALE 117, (2000) 1 SCC 318<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: G Pattanaik, M Shah<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>1. The appellant was convicted by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Hisar Under Section 18 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 for having found to be in possession of 250 grms. opium without any permit or licence and sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years. On appeal, the High Court confirmed the conviction and sentence and hence the present appeal. Before the High Court it was urged on behalf of the appellant that the provisions of Sections 50, 52, 55 and 57 of the Act had not been complied with. The High Court considered these provisions but was of the opinion that the concerned officer having accidentally recovered the article in question of following Section 50 did not arise. So far as the non-compliance of the other provisions are concerned, the High Court was of the view that even though the provisions of Section 55 may be mandatory but no prejudice having been caused the conviction does not get vitiated. Learned counsel for the appellant contended that in view of the decision of this Court in the case of <a href=\"\/doc\/795643\/\">State of Punjab v. Balbir Singh<\/a>  as well as 3 Judge Bench decision in the case of <a href=\"\/doc\/344107\/\">Mohinder Kumar v. State, Panaji, Goa  the<\/a> conclusion of the High Court is not sustainable in law and the conviction of the appellant cannot be sustained. We find sufficient force in the aforesaid contention of the learned counsel for the appellant. In view of the pronouncement of this Court in the aforesaid cases and in view of the finding as recorded in the judgment of the High Court that provisions of Sections 55 and 57 have not been complied with the conviction is bad in law. The appellant has already undergone sentence for 9 years. We, accordingly, set aside the impugned judgment of the High Court and that of the learned Additional Sessions Judge. Hisar and acquit the appellant of the charges leveled against him. The appeal is, accordingly, allowed. The bail bond stands discharged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India Thandi Ram vs State Of Haryana on 7 April, 1999 Equivalent citations: 2000 CriLJ 588, 2000 (69) ECC 634, JT 1999 (3) SC 231, 1999 (3) SCALE 117, (2000) 1 SCC 318 Bench: G Pattanaik, M Shah ORDER 1. The appellant was convicted by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Hisar Under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supreme-court-of-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thandi Ram vs State Of Haryana on 7 April, 1999 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/thandi-ram-vs-state-of-haryana-on-7-april-1999\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thandi Ram vs State Of Haryana on 7 April, 1999 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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