In Brief
In this bail matter under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, the Supreme Court found that the High Court erred in cancelling bail granted to Bharat Chaudhary and rejecting bail for Raja Chandrasekharan. The Court held that without quantitative analysis in test reports and without contraband recovered from the accused's premises, the prosecution could not establish commercial quantity—a prerequisite for bail denial. The Court also ruled that confessional statements under Section 67 of the NDPS Act, held inadmissible in Tofan Singh, cannot form the sole basis for establishing nexus between accused. The bail granted by the trial court was restored for A-4, and A-1 was ordered released on bail given his prolonged custody.
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