Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
41. Power to issue warrant and
authorization.
(1) A Metropolitan Magistrate or a Magistrate of the first class
or any Magistrate of the second class specially empowered by the State Government
in this behalf, may issue a warrant for the arrest of any person whom he has
reason to believe to have committed any offence punishable under Chapter IV, or
for the search, whether by day or by night, of any building, conveyance or
place in which he has reason to believe any narcotic drug or psychotropic
substance in respect of which an offence punishable under Chapter IV has been
committed or any document or other article which may
furnish evidence of the commission of such offence is kept or concealed.
(2) Any such officer of gazetted rank of the departments of
central excise, narcotics, customs, revenue intelligence or any other
department of the Central Government or of the Border Security Force as is
empowered in this behalf by general or special order by the Central Government,
or any such officer of the revenue, drugs control, excise, police or any other
department of a State Government as is empowered in this behalf by general or
special order of the State Government, if he has reason to believe from
personal knowledge or information given by any person and taken in writing that
any person has committed an offence punishable under Chapter IV or that any
narcotic drug, or psychotropic substance in respect of which any offence
punishable under Chapter IV has been committed or any document or other article
which may furnish evidence of the commission of such offence has been kept or
concealed in any building, conveyance or place, may authorize any officer
subordinate to him but superior in rank to a peon, sepoy, or a constable, to
arrest such a person or search a building, conveyance or place whether by day
or by night or himself arrest a person or search a building, conveyance or
place.
(3) The officer to whom a warrant under sub-section (1) is
addressed and the officer who authorized the arrest or search or the officer
who is so authorized under sub-section (2) shall have all the powers of an
officer acting under section 42.