[Rhea Bail Hearing-LIVE UPDATES] Bombay HC Hearing On Bail Application Of Rhea Chakraborty And Others In NDPS Case

Sayed : If this Court is going to hold that a person can be sent to gallows on the basis of a statement recorded by NCB, without recovery, we are going to open a pandora's box. NCB is then going to rule the roost.

Sayed : What comes out of chats and telephonic conversations unless there is direct evidence before the court that I have committed offence.

Sayed : The delivery man could have smoked the contraband himself, or could have stolen it, or could have delivered it to someone else. Without proof of actual delivery, the messages have no evidentiary value.

Sayed : Unless and until the prosecution proves that the contraband was actually delivered to me, those messages have no evidentiary value.

Sayed : For any act to be termed as an offence, the act has to be done. I message from my phone to a dealer to send me 10 grams of hasish. The dealer replies he is sending. Only on the basis of these two messages, can any offence be proved?

"...activities mentioned in sub-clauses (i) to (v) of clause (viiia) of Section 2 of the NDPS Act" - Sayed quotes from the Kerala HC judgment.

"The expression "financing" is not related to the payment of the value of the narcotic drug. On the other hand, it involves an activity other than sale or purchase of the narcotic drug, in which a person invests or provides funds or resourses for facilitating the.."

"Sale of a narcotic drug on credit is different from financing the activity of sale of a narcotic drug", Sayed quotes from the judgment.

On the point of allegation of financing drugs procurement, Sayed refers to the Kerala HC decision in 'K K Ashraf vs State of Kerala'.

Sayed : We are maligning a man who is now no more (Sushant Singh Rajput).