Mozambique national acquitted in drug smuggling case

The court put a serious question as to why the document prepared by police at the time of seizure was not attested by independent witnesses though it is a mandatory provision of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances NDPS Act.

Customs officials had arrested Meuta from Indira Gandhi International IGI airport on January 20 on charges of drug smuggling, when he was about to board an Ethiopian flight and claimed to have recovered 1.475 kg of heroin from him. The accused had been in jail custody since then.

The accused had claimed that he was innocent and falsely implicated by customs officials who forced him to sign on some blank papers even as the prosecution had cited as many as 12 witnesses in support of its case.