Sadam Khan vs State S — 2025 YLR 327 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN

Case information

Citation: 2025 YLR 327 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
Court: Balochistan High Court
Year: 2025
Reporter: YLR
Parties: Sadam Khan vs State S
Subject matter: Criminal
Provisions referred to: S. 9

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Judgment text as reported

Sadam Khan VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of narcotic substances---Appreciation of evidence---Laboratory report not conclusive---Prosecution case was that 80-kilograms charas was recovered from the vehicle of accused persons---NarcoticsTesting Laboratory Report was not worth considering for conviction and awarding sentence---Trial Court although had rightly considered the Fast Blue B Salt Test as presumptive test, but had wrongly construed the Thin Layer Chromatograph ("TLC") test as a confirmative test, which was in contravention of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes ("UNODC") guidelines and recommendations, which considered the TLC test as presumptive test so defined in clause 4.6 of UNODC Manual i.e., Recommended Method for Identification and Analysis of Synthetic Cathinones in Seized Materials, 2015, making the Narcotics Testing Laboratory Report inconclusive---Appeal against conviction was allowed, in circumstances.

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