10 years RI for possessing cannabis

Shimla, Apr 28 (UNI) The Himachal Pradesh High Court has upheld the local court's decision of sentencing a person, possessing cannabis, to ten years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs one lakh.

A division bench of Justices Surjit Singh and Dev Darshan Sood, upheld the conviction but reduced the sentence awarded in default of payment of fine from earlier two years rigorous imprisonment to six months.

The court convicted the applicant, who was arrested from the forest area adjoining Shilaru village of Kullu district, under Section 20 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act for possessing eleven kg of cannabis.

The applicant, in his application, had prayed that there were several contradictions in the prosecution's theory and that he was called to the police station and implicated in a false case.

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