Section 55
Police to take charge of articles seized and delivered.
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.
An officer-in-charge of a police station
shall take charge of and keep in safe custody, pending the orders of the Magistrate, all articles seized under this Act within the local area of that police station and which may be delivered to him, and shall
allow any officer who may accompany such articles to the police station or who may be deputed for the
purpose, to affix his seal to such articles or to take samples of and from them and all samples so taken
shall also be sealed with a seal of the officer-in-charge of the police station.