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(j) when any substance suspected of being a dangerous drug
has been seized and such substance is contained in a
number of receptacles, it shall be sufficient to analyse
samples of the contents of a number not less than ten
percentum of such receptacles and if such analysis
establishes that such samples are all of the same nature
and description, it shall be presumed, until the contrary
is proved, that the contents of all the receptacles were of
the same nature and description as the samples so analyzed
and if such analysis establishes that such samples consist
of or contain a dangerous drug, it shall be presumed,
until the contrary is proved, that the contents of all the
receptacles consist of or contain the same proportion of
such drug;

(k) if a person is charged for an offence of consuming a
dangerous drug or administering a dangerous drug to
himself or suffering any other person to administer a
dangerous drug to him, and any dangerous drug is found
in the urine of the person charged as a result of a urine
test conducted under section 31A, the person shall be
presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have consumed
the drug or to have administered the drug to himself or
to have suffered any other person to administer the drug
to him in contravention of this Act or its regulations.

Admission of statements in evidence

37A. (1) Where any person is charged with any offence against
this Act any statement, whether such statement amounts to a
confession or not or is oral or in writing, made at any time,
whether before or after such person is charged and whether in the
course of a police investigation or not and whether or not wholly
or partly in answer to questions, by such person to or in the hearing
of any police officer of or above the rank of Inspector or any
senior officer of customs and whether or not interpreted to him by
any other police officer or senior officer of customs or any other
person concerned or not in the arrest, shall notwithstanding anything
to the contrary contained in any written law, be admissible at his