The Supreme Court held that offences relating to manufacture and sale of drugs under Chapter IV of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 cannot be tried by a Magistrate and must be tried by a Court not inferior to a Sessions Court.A bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Vipul M. Pancholi observed –“Now, Section 32(2) specifically provides that no Court inferior to that of a Court...
