NDPS Cognizance and the Right to Prior Hearing
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TirthankarMukherjee
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Supreme Court of IndiaHigh Court at Calcutta
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✦ National Chairman of The Fourth Estate of India
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Tirthankar Mukherjee is an advocate practising before the Supreme Court of India and the High Court at Calcutta.
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NDPS – Taking of Cognizance: Prior Hearing to the Accused
Mandatory Under the First Proviso to Section 223(1) of the BNSS
Read Full Insight →Where a complaint under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 is filed after July 1, 2024, a Special Court is mandatorily required to hear the accused before taking cognizance, in terms of the first proviso to Section 223(1) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
Section 36A(1)(d) of the NDPS Act is pari materia with Section 44(1)(b) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, and the mandate of prior hearing under BNSS applies equally to complaints under both statutes. Mere remand on the date of cognizance does not satisfy this statutory requirement.
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NDPS – Taking of Cognizance
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First Proviso to Section 223(1) BNSS
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Understanding Procedural Safeguards under Section 223
General legal awareness and principled analysis of developing questions of law.
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Constitutional Remedies and Institutional Accountability
General legal awareness and principled analysis of developing questions of law.
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