Rajinder Kumar @ Narinder Kumar @ Nindi vs State Of Punjab --Respondent on 4 July, 2008
In Narinder Singh @ Nindi Vs. State of
Punjab 2005(3) RCR (Criminal) 343, which was a case, relating to the
recovery of 4 Kgs. of opium, the samples were sent to the office of the
Chemical Examiner, after 23 days. All the samples were intact. In these
circumstances, it was held that, in the face of the other cogent,
convincing, reliable, and trustworthy evidence, produced by the
prosecution, to prove the completion of link evidence, it could not be
held that the possibility of tampering with the samples, could not be ruled
out. The principle of law, laid down, in the aforesaid authorities, is fully
applicable to the facts of the instant case. Therefore, in the instant case,
unexplained delay of 17 days, in sending the samples, to the office of the
Chemical Examiner, did not at all matter much. In this view of the
matter, the submission of the Counsel for the appellant, being without
merit, must fail, and the same stands rejected.