Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985–Sec. 52-A–Non production of recovered contraband as primary evidence–When permissible–If the officer-in-charge of the concerned police station or the empowered officer draws representative sample, prepare inventory and have photography done of the seized contraband in the presence of concerned Magistrate, there would remain no need to produce and exhibit the muddamal (case property) in the Court during the course of the trial–Exhibiting and proving the inventory, the representative samples and the photographs would be treated as primary evidence of the seized contraband.
