Section 48
Power of attachment of crop illegally cultivated.
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.
Any Metropolitan Magistrate, Judicial
Magistrate of the first class or any Magistrate specially empowered in this behalf by the State
Government 1[or any officer of a gazetted rank empowered under section 42] may order attachment of
any opium poppy, cannabis plant or coca plant which he has reason to believe to have been illegally
cultivated and while doing so may pass such order (including an order to destroy the crop) as he thinks fit.
Notes
1 Ins. by Act 2 of 1989, s. 13 (w.e.f. 29-5-1989).