(ii) On getting the information, another policy party headed by ASI Gurpal Singh reached Bus Stand Manawan and after confirming the information from ASI Buta Singh, ASI Gurpal Singh heading the police party raided the placed as informed by the informer. A person was found sitting there, who at the sight of the police party took out the black coloured plastic polythene from right pocket of his pants and threw the same on the ground, out of which some strips came out. The strips were found to contain tablets of Etizolam 0.05 MG . The person disclosed his name as Lakhvir Singh @ Lakha (petitioner). ASI Gurpal Singh after introducing himself, informed the petitioner about his legal right to get searched in the presence of gazetted officer or any Magistrate. However, petitioner replied that as the intoxicating tablets are clearly visible in the plastic polythene, so he had faith upon ASI Gurpal. His consent memo was recorded and then, search of the plastic polythene was conducted. It was found to contain 31 strips of Etizolam tablets 0.05 mg , each containing 10 tablets. Thus, there were 310 tablets in 31 strips. The batch number, date of manufacturing and date of expiry were covered with blue ink. Parcel of the recovered tablet was prepared and sealed by ASI Gurpal.
