Nainital court acquits man in about 1 kg Kathgodam charas case
Munawwar Hussain was acquitted by Nainital's special NDPS court on 3 November 2026 in a case arising from police's claimed recovery of about 1 kg of charas from him and Mohammed Kamil in Kathgodam in 2019. The court treated the recovery as doubtful and found the prosecution had not proved the charge beyond reasonable doubt.
🇮🇳 Haidakhan Road, Kathgodam, Nainital district, Uttarakhand · India
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Munawwar Hussain was acquitted by Nainital’s special NDPS court in a nearly
seven-year-old case involving charas, a cannabis resin.[1]Additional District
and Sessions Judge Sanjeev Kumar delivered the verdict on 3 November.[1]The
court acquitted Hussain of the charge under sections 8/20 of the NDPS Act.[1]After acquitting him, the court cancelled his personal and bail bonds.[2]
Police said they caught motorcycle riders Munawwar Hussain and Mohammed Kamil
during a check on Haidakhan Road in the Kathgodam police-station area on 12
February 2019.[1]Police claimed charas was recovered from both men.[1]A
second account put the claimed recovery at about 1 kilogram.[3]Kamil died
during the trial, and proceedings against him were closed on 6 December 2022.[3]
The court found no general-diary entry in the records showing that the police
team had left the station.[1]Recovery and arrest documents contradicted one
another; the investigator had not signed the checklist, and another document
bore the signature of an officer who was not present at the scene.[1]No
independent witness was included at the time of the alleged recovery.[1]The
court also considered failure to follow mandatory safeguards under section 50 of
the NDPS Act significant.[1]It treated the recovery as doubtful and found the
prosecution had failed to prove the allegations beyond reasonable doubt.[1]
The Amar Ujala account gives no weight, while the other two accounts put the claimed recovery at about 1 kg; this is an approximate total, not an amount apportioned between the two men.
The date and cause of Mohammed Kamil's death were not reported; the accounts state only that proceedings against him were closed on 6 December 2022.
The sources do not report an appeal or later court action after Hussain's acquittal.
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Saligao police arrested 49-year-old Mumbai resident Danny Frank Braganza at Marra, Pilerne, on 28 October 2026 in a ganja case under the NDPS Act. The Mapusa court later granted him bail on a Rs15,000 personal bond with a local surety, ordering six days' reporting to Saligao police and court permission for travel outside Goa or India.
The Special Judge's court in Sarkaghat denied regular bail to Bheem Singh and Lal Singh, who were arrested with 500 g of charas at Bhararu in Mandi district on 28 September 2026. It also ordered the Superintendent of Police to investigate why a police officer described Lal Singh's earlier NDPS case as pending although he had been sentenced to three years and one month in it.
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