Andhra court cuts two Kerala men's 10-year terms to time served over 100 kg of ganja
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on 9 July 2008 cut the 10-year sentences of two Kerala men caught with 90 packets of ganja weighing about 100 kg at a Khammam check post in March 2007 to the 15 months they had already spent in jail.
🇮🇳 A.P. Genco check post, Khammam district, Andhra Pradesh · India
Police stopped a jeep at the A.P. Genco check post on the morning of 29 March 2007 and
found 90 ganja packets weighing about 100 kg hidden in its roof.[1]The two men
inside, both from Kerala, said they were carrying the packets from Orissa; officers
seized the ganja, arrested them and registered Crime No. 13 of 2007.[1]
The First Additional Sessions Judge at Khammam convicted them in January 2008 and
imposed ten years of rigorous imprisonment each plus a fine of Rs 1,000, treating the
haul as a commercial quantity.[1]On appeal, the High Court held that only 3.5 kg
had actually been sent to the chemical examiner and proved to be ganja, so the
commercial-quantity minimum did not apply.[1]
Reduced to time already spent in jail
The court set aside the ten-year terms, convicted the men instead of the lesser
intermediate-quantity offence and sentenced them to the period they had already
undergone, ordering their release.[1]Both men had been in jail continuously since
their arrest on 29 March 2007.[1]
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Alappuzha Additional District Sessions Court sentenced 34-year-old Prince to five years of rigorous imprisonment in a commercial-quantity hashish oil case. Kuthiyathode police had arrested him at Thuravoor in August 2016 with 1.03 kg of hashish oil.
Karaikal District Judge Mohan sentenced Suresh, 44, to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and a Rs 50,000 fine for selling ganja, with six more months in jail if the fine is unpaid. Three co-accused, his son Sathish and two friends, were each fined Rs 10,000 in the case dating to a 2023 arrest.
A special NDPS court in Bettiah, Bihar, sentenced Amjad Khan to three years of rigorous imprisonment and a 75,000-rupee fine for smuggling 1.77 kg of ganja found in his motorcycle's storage box in September 2023. Police caught him at Kadir Chowk after a tip-off, and he faces three more months in jail if the fine is unpaid.
A special NDPS court in Chandigarh sentenced a 34-year-old Hamirpur man convicted of keeping 200 grams of charas to the one month he had already spent in jail, plus a 7,500-rupee fine, after he said he had fallen into bad company. The judge treated the quantity as intermediate rather than commercial and let him return to his family without further jail time.