Complainant And IO Same: Two Judge Bench Doubts The Recent Three Judge Bench Judgment

A two judge bench of Supreme Court, yesterday, expressed its disagreement with the view taken by a three-judge bench in Mohan Lal vs. State of Punjab where it held that that the accused is entitled to acquittal if informant and the investigator in NDPS cases is the same person. The bench comprising Justice UU Lalit and Justice MR Shah made this observation while hearing an SLP (Mukesh...