Section 47
Duty of certain officers to give information of illegal cultivation.
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to narcotic drugs, to make stringent provisions for the control and regulation of operations relating to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances , to provide for the forfeiture of property derived from, or used in, illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, to implement the provisions of the International Conventions on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and for matters connected therewith.
Every officer of the
Government and every panch, sarpanch and other village officer of whatever description shall give
immediate information to any officer of the Police or of any of the departments mentioned in section 42
when it may come to his knowledge that any land has been illegally cultivated with the opium poppy,
cannabis plant or coca plant, and every such officer of the Government, panch, sarpanch and other village
officer who neglects to give such information shall be liable to punishment.