1999 (10) TMI 703

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..... n complied with by P.W. 8, the Officer who conducted the search. According to the learned Counsel for the appellant the searching officer should have told the person who was subjected to search that he had a right to be searched in the presence of a Gazetted Officer or a Magistrate. In this case P.W. 8 has deposed that she told the appellant that if he wished he could be searched in the presence o .....

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..... as not an independent witness inasmuch as he had obliged the police in other cases also. We are not inclined to say that if a person happened to witness other instances that would denude him of his independent character. 4. The last attempt made by the learned Counsel was based on a truncated sentence found in the cross-examination of P.W. 1. The analyst who tested the contraband in the laborato .....

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