Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
48. Power of attachment of crop
illegally cultivated.
Any Metropolitan Magistrate, Judicial Magistrate of the first
class or any Magistrate specially empowered in this behalf by the State
Government 14[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.