Selvanayagam Carmel Jenova v. Attorney General – CA CASE NO. 107/2011-2011

In the case between the Hon. Attorney General, Attorney General’s Department (Plaintiff) and Selvanayagam Carmel Jenova (Accused-Appellant), the court addressed whether the conviction and sentence of life imprisonment for possession of 41.86 grams of heroin under section 54 (a) (d) of the Poisons, Opium, and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance No. 13 of 1984 was justified. It was determined that significant contradictions existed in the prosecution’s evidence regarding the circumstances of the search, the handling of the material evidence, and the conduct attributed to the accused. The benefit of the doubt was found to have not been extended to the accused-appellant, compelling the appellate court to set aside the conviction and sentence. The reasoning relied on applicable legal precedents addressin