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The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985

§32Punishment for offence for which no punishment is provided

Whoever contravenes any provision of this Act or any rule or order made, or any condition of any licence, permit or authorisation 1. Subs. by Act 9 of 2001, s. 13, for “1,500 grams” (w.e.f. 2-10-2001). 2. Subs. by Act 16 of 2014, s. 15, for “shall be punishable with death” (w.e.f. 1-5-2014). 3. Subs. by Act 9 of 2001, s. 13, for certain words, figures and brackets (w.e.f. 2-10-2001). issued thereunder for which no punishment is separately provided in this Chapter, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, 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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