A drug case in Jammu and Kashmir involving 595 kg of narcotics collapsed after investigators failed to follow basic procedures for collecting and storing evidence, leaving a man to spend nearly five years in jail before the case unraveled. The prosecution’s case fell apart when a prosecution witness told the court that he signed a statement without even reading it. The failures, linked to how evidence was handled, were described as part of a broader pattern in investigations under stringent laws in Jammu and Kashmir and beyond. The court also heard that basic evidence procedures were not followed from the start. With those steps mishandled, the case came to be seen as unfair and not genuine, according to the account reported. The man in the case had already spent nearly five years in jail when the matter was brought down. The report framed the collapse as a result of serious shortcomings in the way investigators built the case, and the lack of accountability that followed. The latest status in the story is that the 595 kg drug case has collapsed due to evidence-handling failures, with no additional outcome described beyond that finding.