1999 INSC 0899
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

Ravindra B. Dixit

Vs.

State of M.P.

                                      (G.B.Pattanaik and U.C.Banerjee JJ.)

18.11.1999

                                                       ORDER

The Text below is only a summarized version of the order pronounced

Leave granted. The High Court cannot conclude that the arrest or seizure in question was either
vexatious or unnecessary based on the mere fact that there has been an infraction of Sections 42 and
50 of the NDPS Act, 1985. Allowing the appeal, the direction of the High Court to proceed against
the appellant-applicant under Section 58 of the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substances Act,
1985, is set aside because the impugned direction of the High Court is without jurisdiction as the
condition precedent for application of Section 58 was lacking.