Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power of attachment of crop illegally cultivated.-Any Metropolitan Magistrate, Judicial Magistrate of the first class or any Magistrate specially empowered in this behalf by the State Govemment 2[or any officer of a gazetted rank empowered under section 421 may order attachment of any opium poppy, carurabis plant or coca plant which he has reason to believe to have been illegally cultivated and while doing so may pass such order (including an order to destroy the crop) as he thinks fit. l. lns. by Act 9 of 2001, sec. 20 (w.e.f. 2-10-2001),