The Supreme Court has observed that considerable unexplained delay on the part of Drug authorities to test a sample can render any penalty under Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, based upon the said analysis of the sample, as void. In appeal, the Apex Court bench observed that there was a considerable delay which resulted in the sample being sent and …
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