JUDGMENT :

1. Heard learned Additional Solicitor General (`ASG’) for the petitioner-Narcotics Control Bureau ('NCB'), and the learned counsel for the respondent No. 1.

2. Rule. Rule is made returnable forthwith at the request and with the consent of the parties and is take up for final disposal.

INTRODUCTION :

3. A very interesting and a crucial question, which will have a bearing in several Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (`NDPS’) cases, in which blotter paper containing Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (`LSD’) is seized, has arisen in this petition i.e. whether the blotter paper forms an integral part of the LSD drug when put on a blotter paper for consumption ?

FACTS :

4. A few facts as are necessary to decide the aforesaid petition are as under :

According to the prosecution, during the course of investigation of CR No.16/2020, registered with the NCB, a voluntary statement came to be recorded of one Kaizan Ebrahim. It is alleged that the accused-Kaizan Ebrahim disclosed the respondent No.1's name, as a receiver of ganja/marijuana. In the house search of respondent No.1 a total of 585 gms of hashish/charas; 270.12 gms of marijuana/ganja; 3.6 gms of THC; and 0.62 gms of LSD (31 bl