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2018 (12) TMI 801 - HC - CustomsSmuggling - contraband item - Heron - acquittal of offence - NDPS Act - Held that:- The appellant is entitled to acquittal on both the accounts urged by Ms.Sidhu, i.e., because PW-1 was complainant as well as I/O, and because the public witnesses, who had supposedly been co-opted during investigation, had been dropped by the prosecution, after citing them as witnesses in their support. I do not intend, therefore, to enter into any other intricacies of the submissions advanced by learned counsel. The present case stand completely vitiated even by the sole reason of the fact that PW-1 Anju Singh was IO, as well as complainant. The appellant in the present case, by authoritative pronouncements of the Supreme Court as well as this Court, the appellant is entitled, on the basis thereof, to acquittal, of the charges against her. The appellant is acquitted of the charges against her - appeal allowed - decided in favor of appellant.
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