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The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985

§26Punishment for certain acts by licensee or his servants

If the holder of any licence, permit or authorisation granted under this Act or any rule or order made thereunder or any person in his employ and acting on his behalf— (a) omits, without any reasonable cause, to maintain accounts or to submit any return in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or any rule made thereunder; 1. Subs. by Act 16 of 2014, s. 12, for “six months” (w.e.f. 1-5-2014). 2. Subs. by Act 9 of 2001, s. 9, for section 25 (w.e.f. 2-10-2001). 3. Ins. by Act 2 of 1989, s. 7 (w.e.f. 29-5-1989). (b) fails to produce without any reasonable cause such licence, permit or authorisation on demand of any officer authorised by the Central Government or State Government in this behalf; (c) keeps any accounts or makes any statement which is false or which he knows or has reason to believe to be incorrect; or (d) wilfully and knowingly does any act in breach of any of the conditions of licence, permit or authorisation for which a penalty is not prescribed elsewhere in this Act, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine or with both.

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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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