SC sets aside 21-year-old conviction based solely on inadmissible statement made before NDPS official under Section 67 of NDPS Act
In Tofan Singh v. State of Tamil Nadu (2013) 16 SCC 31, it was held that officers authorised under Section 53 of the NDPS Act were ‘police officers’ and the statements made to them under Section 67 were inadmissible in evidence.