Crane Auction unlawful without providing notice or hearing to owner Under NDPS Case

Nurul Hasan Khan Vs Union of India (Patna High Court) Patna High Court held that since owner of the crane was not an accused in NDPS case, thus auction of his crane without any notice and without providing opportunity of being heard is unlawful. Accordingly, criminal writ petition is allowed. Facts- This criminal writ application has been filed for a direction upon the respondent authorities to pay appropriate compensation to the petitioner for arbitrarily and illegally disposing/selling of the crane of the petitioner. According to the petitioner, the action of the respondent authorities in i...