In Brief
The Supreme Court dismissed the appellant's criminal appeal against conviction under the NDPS Act, 1985 for illegally selling 30 kg of poppy straw to an unlicensed buyer. The Court upheld concurrent findings of the trial and high courts that the appellant sold the contraband without authorization to co-accused Karim Patel. The conviction rested on direct evidence from the investigating officer, immediate recovery of the contraband from the buyer, and the appellant's own statement under Section 67 admitting the transaction. The Court rejected arguments about missing labels, chain-of-custody defects, and involuntariness of the statement, finding adequate independent evidence to sustain the conviction and sentence.
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