Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
68F. Seizure or freezing of illegally
acquired property
(1) Where any officer conducting an inquiry or investigation
under section 68E has reason to believe that any property in relation to which
such inquiry or investigation is being conducted is an illegally acquired
property and such property is likely to be concealed, transferred or dealt with
in any manner which will result in frustrating any proceeding relating to
forfeiture of such property under this Chapter, he may make an order for
seizing such property and where it is not practicable to seize such property,
he may make an order that such property shall not be transferred or otherwise
dealt with, except with the prior permission of the officer making such order, or
of the competent authority and a copy of such order shall be served on the
person concerned:
Provided that the competent authority shall be duly
informed of any order made under this sub-section and a copy of such an order
shall be sent to the competent authority within forty-eight hours of its
being made.
(2) Any order made under sub-section (1) shall have no effect
unless the said order is confirmed by an order of the competent authority
within a period of thirty days of its being made.
Explanation.- For the purposes of this section,
"transfer of property" means any disposition, conveyance, assignment,
settlement, delivery, payment or other alienation of property and, without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes-
(a) the creation of a trust in property;
(b) the grant or creation of any lease, mortgage, charge,
easement, license, power, partnership or interest in property;
(c) the exercise of a power of appointment of property
vested in any person, not the owner of the property, to determine its
disposition in favor of any person other than the donee of the power; and
(d) any transaction entered into by any person with intent
thereby to diminish directly or indirectly the value of his own property and to
increase the value of the property of any other person.