JUDGMENT

A.M. Ahmadi, J.

1. The Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (Act 61 of 1985), hereinafter alluded to as the Act, was enacted inter alia to make stringent privisions for the control and regulation of operations relating to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and for matters connected therewith. The enactment received the Presidents assent on 16th September, 1985. The dictionary of the Act is to be found in Section 2 thereof. Section 2 (XXIX) says that words and expressions used in the Act and not defined but defined in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, hereinafter called the Code, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Code. The Act is divided into six chapters comprising 83 sections. Since in the instant case we are concerned with only a few provisions we need not examine the scheme of the Act. We had an occasion to examine the scheme of the Act in some detail in Raj Kumar Karwal v. Union of India and Ors., Chapter IV defines the offences and prescribes stringent punishments, with minimum punishments and fines for them. For certain offences the punishment prescribed can extend to rigorous imprisonment for 20 years and a fine of rupees two