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Section 52a – THE NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES ACT 1985

THE NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES ACT 1985

 

52A. Disposal of seized narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

 

1[52A. Disposal of seized narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances

 

(1) The Central Government may, having regard to the hazardous nature of any narcotic drugs or psychotropic substance, their vulnerability to theft substitution, constraints of proper storage space or any other relevant considerations, by notification published in the Official, Gazette, specify such narcotic drugs or psychotropic substance or class of narcotic drugs or class of psychotropic substances which shall, as soon as may be after their seizure, be disposed of by such officer and in such manner as that Government may, from time to time, determine after following the procedure hereinafter specified.

 

(2) Where any narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances has been seized and forwarded to the officer in charge of the nearest police station or to the officer empowered under Section 53, the officer referred to in subsection (1) shall prepare an inventory of such narcotic drugs or, psychotropic substances containing such details relating to their description, quality, quantity, mode of packing, marks, numbers or such other identifying particulars of the narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances or the packing in which they are packed, country of origin and other particulars as the officer referred to in sub-section (1) may consider relevant to the identity of the narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances in any proceedings under this Act and make an application, to any purpose of,-

 

(a) Certifying correctness of the inventory so prepared; or

 

(b) Taking, in the presence of such Magistrate, photographs substances and certifying such photographs as true; or

 

(c) Allowing to draw representative samples of such drugs or substances, in the presence of such Magistrate and certifying the correctness of any list of samples so drawn.

 

(3) Where an application is made under sub-section (2), the Magistrate shall, as soon as may be, allow the application

 

(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1972) or the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), every Court trying an offence under this Act, shall treat the inventory, the photographs of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances and any list of samples drawn under sub-section (2) and certified by the Magistrate, as primary evidence in request of such offence.]

 

1. Ins. by Act No. 2 of 1989, (w.e.f. 29-5-1989).

 

 

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