Santosh Patra & Others vs State Of Orissa on 10 November, 2014
22. Similar situation arose in the reported case of Jadaba
Dehury @ Dehery v. State of Orissa; (2009) 44 OCR-320
wherein this Court taking into consideration the case of
Kedarnath Mallik @ Kedar Mallik v. State of Orissa; 2001
Crl.L.J. 1307 has held that it is well settled that non-compliance
of mandatory requirements of the N.D.P.S. Act render a
prosecution there under invalid in law and in the facts of non-
compliance of the mandate of Section of 55 of the Act shall
render the prosecution case vulnerable.