In November 2020, Afghan national Ahmad Jan Sediqui was intercepted by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on his arrival from Kabul. His crime? He was allegedly illegally trafficking commercial quantities of heroin — by swallowing capsules containing 918 grams of the drug. Over five years later, on April 17, Sediqui was acquitted by a Special NDPS (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances) Court in Delhi after the judge pointed out various procedural and evidentiary failures by the prosecution. Five main points were raised by NDPS Special Judge Jitendra Pratap Singh of Patiala House Court, in an order dated April 17, which was recently made public. -The prosecution has not satisfactorily proved strict and meaningful compliance with Section 50 NDPS Act at the stage when suspicion of internal concealment was acted upon.…