The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
If any person contravenes an order made under section 9A, he shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to one lakh rupees: Provided that the court may, for reasons to be recorded in the judgment, impose a fine exceeding one lakh rupees.]
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Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1791/5/a1985-61.pdf, 719,612 bytes, sha256 ef1b3991…) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-29. The same handle also carries a Hindi edition (H1985-61.pdf) — the English 'a'-prefixed file is the one ingested. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history excluded; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.
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