The Bombay high court on Friday raised several queries on how other forensic laboratories test the weight of LSD and also wanted to know whether the Narcotics Control Bureau was willing to send the blotter papers seized from an alleged drug peddler, Anuj Keshwani , back to laboratory for a re-test, after his lawyer said the paper’s weight should not to be counted.
The HC was hearing a petition filed by NCB which challenged an April 2021 order of the special trial court directing it to send the sample to the forensic science laboratory, Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat, to ascertain the weight of the purported Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD), a hallucinogenic narcotic drug, without the blotter paper.
The additional solicitor general Anil Singh, representing the NCB, said it was not necessary to send the seized material for a re-test to the laboratory, but the agency was ready to file a clarificatory additional affidavit on whether the lab had tested the entire seized material too. The HC bench of Justice Revati Mohite Dere concluded hearing the matter and reserved it for judgment, on excellence.
