On Wednesday, the Kerala High Court overturned a narcotics case against a beautician from Thrissur who had been wrongfully accused in the case and had spent over three months in prison before being freed on bail.
The FIR was dismissed by Justice Kauser Edappagath when it was determined that the stamps that had been taken from the woman did not contain any illegal drugs.
The High Court also noted that Sheela Sunny, the beautician, was not a defendant in the case.
The decision was made in response to a petition filed by Sunny, who asked for the drug case against her to be dismissed on the grounds that the investigating officer had not conducted a thorough investigation.
She also argued in her defense that a chemical examination of the stamps taken from her revealed no evidence of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and this was confirmed by the Chemical Examiner’s Laboratory Department in the state’s Ernakulam district.
She was accused of having 0.106 grams of LSD in her possession, which was the basis of the prosecution’s case.
The Kerala government expressed sadness at Sunny’s detention and almost three months of imprisonment in the case on Sunday and suspended the excise officer who was looking into it.
Following a raid at her beauty salon in the Chalakudy neighborhood of the state’s Thrissur district on February 27, the lady was detained by Excise authorities as a result of a complaint.
After 2.5 months, she was granted bail and allowed to go.
Last week, the lady informed the media that she had been “trapped” and demanded a thorough investigation to identify those who were really to blame.
