The Madras High Court has set aside the conviction and 10-year-sentence imposed by a trial court on a 62-year-old South African woman, in a cocaine smuggling case, after she spent eight-and-a-half years in prison since her arrest in 2017.
Justice M. Nirmal Kumar allowed Princess Ntombifuthi Msomi’s appeal pending since 2022, challenging her 2020 conviction in the 2017 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act case, and ordered her release from prison forthwith.






