Seizure or freezing of illegally acquired property
Section 68F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 deals with seizure or freezing of illegally acquired property. Where any officer conducting an inquiry or investigation under section 68E has reason to believe that any property in relation to which such inquiry or investigation is being conducted is an illegally acquired property and such property is likely to be concealed, transferred or dealt with in any man The Act came into force on 14 Nov 1985.
1[68F. Seizure or freezing of illegally acquired property.-- (1) Where any officer conducting an inquiry or investigation under section 68E has reason to believe that any property in relation to which such inquiry or investigation is being conducted is an illegally acquired property and such property is likely to be concealed, transferred or dealt with in any manner which will result in frustrating any proceeding relating to forfeiture of such property under this Chapter, he may make an order for seizing such property and where it is not practicable to seize such property, he may make an order that such property shall not be transferred or otherwise dealt with, except with the prior permission of the officer making such order, or of the competent authority and a copy of such order shall be served on the person concerned:
Provided that the competent authority shall be duly informed of any order made under this subsection and a copy of such an order shall be sent to the competent authority within forty-eight hours of its being made.
(2) Any order made under sub-section (1) shall have no effect unless the said order is confirmed by an order of the competent authority within a period of thirty days of its being made.
Explanation.-- For the purposes of this section, "transfer of property" means any disposition, conveyance, assignment, settlement, delivery, payment or other alienation of property and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes--
(a) the creation of a trust in property;
(b) the grant or creation of any lease, mortgage, charge, easement, licence, power, partnership or interest in property;
(c) the exercise of a power of appointment of property vested in any person, not the owner of the property, to determine its disposition in favour of any person other than the donee of the power; and
(d) any transaction entered into by any person with intent thereby to diminish directly or indirectly the value of his own property and to increase the value of the property of any other person.]
Section 68F, The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (Act 61 of 1985).
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Judgments citing this section
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… Deputy Advocate General, Punjab. Mr. Sourabh Goel, Senior Panel Counsel with Ms. Geetika Sharma, Advocate for respondent No.2. SHEEL NAGU, CHIEF JUSTICE (Oral) Challenge in this petition is to the order dated 08.09.2007 (Annexure P-1) freezing the property of the petitioner under Section 68F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, which was founded upon conviction of the petitioner for the offences under the NDPS Act. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that vide judgment dated 22.02.2008 passed in Criminal Appeal No. CRA-D-640-DB of 2006, the petitioner has since been …
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… JUSTICE LISA GILL Present: Mr. Ashok Giri, Advocate for the appellant. Mahesh Grover , J. The appellant impugns the order of the learned Single Judge dated 22.01.2016 questioning the order by which his property (residential house) was 'freezed' in terms of Section 68F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short 'the Act'). The relevant provisions of Section 68A(cc) and (d) of the Act, which would have a bearing on the controversy, are extracted here below:- > (cc) every person who has been arrested or against whom a warrant or authorisation of arrest …
Made under this section, and citing it
1 instrument names this provision in its title or its text without being made under it.
Questions about Section 68F
What does Section 68F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act deal with?
Section 68F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act is headed "Seizure or freezing of illegally acquired property". [68F. Seizure or freezing of illegally acquired property.-- (1) Where any officer conducting an inquiry or investigation under section 68E has reason to believe that any property in relation to which such inquiry or investigation is being conducted is an illegally acquired property and such property
How do I find court cases under Section 68F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act?
In judgments and charge sheets this section is written several ways, and each form finds a different set of orders. These search the full text of every order eCourtsIndia holds, best matches first: NDPS Act 68F, section 68F NDPS Act, section 68F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. People searching for it also type 68f ndps act and ndps act 68f 2. Each opens the full list of orders on eCourtsIndia, where it can be narrowed by court, year and outcome.
What should I read with Section 68F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, and has it changed?
Its own text turns on section 68E (Identifying illegally acquired property), so none of them can safely be read on its own. 5 other provisions in this corpus refer back to it. One instrument names it without being made under it, most recently THE NARCOTIC DRUGS SUBSTANCES AND PSYCHOTROPIC RULES, 1985I (1985).
When did Section 68F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act come into force?
Section 68F of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, cited as NDPS Act 68F, came into force on 14 Nov 1985, having been enacted on 16 Sep 1985. It is in force as at the date shown on this page.
Other sections of this Act
- 2. Definitions1747 words
- 68B. Definitions819 words
- 9. Power of Central Government to permit, control and regulate816 words
- 36A. Offences triable by Special Courts631 words
- 10. Power of State Government to permit, control and regulate568 words
- 42. Power of entry, search, seizure and arrest without warrant or authorisation507 words
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