Overview
- Additional Judicial Commissioner-cum-Special NDPS Judge Anand Prakash acquitted Indrajeet Rai in an order dated December 19, 2025, holding the charges were not proven beyond reasonable doubt.
- The police told the court the seized cannabis stored at Ormanjhi police station was destroyed by rodents, supported by a station diary entry produced in February 2024 when the material was to be presented.
- The court noted conflicting accounts on the time and location of the stop, who detained the accused, and how others escaped, and it flagged the absence of any independent public witness on a busy highway.
- Prosecutors failed to tie the accused to the vehicle, with the investigating officer admitting the purportedly seized Bolero lacked recorded engine and chassis numbers and that these details were not properly reported.
- Reporting on the verdict renewed questions about evidence storage practices, with coverage recalling a July case in Dhanbad of liquor allegedly damaged by rats and valuing the lost ganja at roughly Rs 1 crore.