P&H: Reduces 3-Year NDPS Sentence To Time Already Served After 26-Year Delay
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has reduced a man’s three-year prison sentence for possessing poppy straw to the period he had already served, citing the passage of about 26 years since the incident and other circumstances. The Court upheld his conviction under Section 15(b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.
Justice Surya Partap Singh partly allowed Gurmukh Singh’s appeal against his conviction and sentence. The trial court had sentenced him to three years’ rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000, with a further three months’ imprisonment in default of payment.
The prosecution case was that...
