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The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985

§73Bar of jurisdiction

No civil court shall entertain any suit or proceeding against any decision made or order passed by any officer or authority under this Act or under any rule made thereunder on any of the following matters, namely:— (a) withholding, refusal or cancellation of any licence for the cultivation of the opium poppy; (b) weighment, examination and classification according to the quality and consistence of opium and any deductions from, or addition to, the standard price made in accordance with such examination; (c) confiscation of opium found to be adulterated with any foreign substance.

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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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