law: Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
  47. Duty of certain officers to give
  
  information of illegal cultivation.
  Every officer of the Government and every panch, sarpanch and
  
  other village officer of whatever description shall give immediate information
  
  to any officer of the Police or of any of the departments mentioned in section
  
  42 when it may come to his knowledge that any land has been illegally
  
  cultivated with the opium poppy, cannabis plant or coca plant, and every such
  
  officer of the Government, panch, sarpanch and other village officer who
  
  neglects to give such information shall be liable to punishment.