Goemkarponn desk
PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay in Goa upheld the bail given to Onyeka Egike, an alleged notorious drug trafficker, dealing a blow to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Goa.
The investigating officer claimed that psychotropic substances were present in commercial quantities, but the Bench of Justice Bharat Deshpande pointed out that there was no CFSL report to support this claim.
The NCB had contested the Special Court’s bail decision for the Nigerian, claiming that the drugs discovered on him were purportedly of a commercial grade.
The bench agreed that the drugs had been taken into custody, sealed, and sent off for examination in a lab. It did point out, though, that there was no CFSL report certifying the substance as LSD in commercial quantities.
HC said that the bail request was made solely on the grounds that there is insufficient evidence to support the claim that the LSD that was purportedly discovered and attached from the Respondent was, in fact, commercial grade.
“The Trial Court took this into consideration and noted that the Respondent/Accused cannot be further detained without the Field Testing Kit Report and the laboratory report,” the HC stated.
Justice Deshpande dismissed the NCB’s appeal and upheld the foreign national’s bail, arguing that the learned Special Court’s conclusions could not be construed as erroneous or illegal.
