Agra court acquits man in 17-year-old 150 g charas case
Agra's special NDPS court acquitted Umrao alias Dabar on 13 November 2026 in a 17-year-old case over a claimed 150 g charas recovery. The court gave him the benefit of doubt after police paperwork, weighing and custody records failed to match.
🇮🇳 Pushpanjali Phase-4, Tajganj, Agra, Uttar Pradesh · India
An Agra court acquitted the accused in the 17-year-old case after police failed
to prove the recovery.[1]Special NDPS Judge Harshvardhan acquitted Umrao
alias Dabar, a resident of Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, giving him the benefit of
doubt.[2]
According to the Tajganj police-station complaint, Sub-Inspector Dinesh Pal
reported that a police team caught Umrao near Pushpanjali Phase-4 on the night
of 15 December 2009.[2]Police claimed that 150 grams of charas were recovered
from his possession, after which he was produced in court and sent to jail.[2]The forensic laboratory weighed the charas at 136 grams, 14 grams less than the
150 grams the police had claimed.[2]
At trial the officer gave one station-departure time in his testimony while the
recovery memo recorded another, and no general-diary copy showing the police
team’s departure for the spot was produced.[2]Police never made the person
who supplied the scales and weights used to weigh the charas a witness.[2]Police produced no sample-seal record and no malkhana property-store register in
court, so the court acquitted the accused on the contradictions and gaps in the
evidence.[2]
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