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The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985

§44Power of entry, search, seizure and arrest in offences relating to coca plant, opium poppy and cannabis plant

The provisions of sections 41, 42 and 43, shall so far as may be, apply in relation to the offence punishable under Chapter IV and relating to coca plant, the opium poppy or cannabis plant and for this purpose references in those sections to narcotic drugs, or psychotropic substance [or controlled substance], shall be construed as including references to coca plant, the opium poppy and cannabis plant.

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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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