law: Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
  39. Power of court to release certain
  
  offenders on probation.
  (1) When any addict is found guilty of an offence punishable
  
  under section 27 and if the court by which he is found guilty is of the
  
  opinion, regard being had to the age, character, antecedents or physical or
  
  mental condition of the offender, that it is expedient so to do, then,
  
  notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or any other law for the time
  
  being in force, the court may, instead of sentencing him at once to any
  
  imprisonment, with his consent, direct that he be released for undergoing
  
  medical treatment for de-toxification or de-addiction from a hospital or an
  
  institution maintained or recognized by Government and on his entering into a
  
  bond in the form prescribed by the Central Government, with or without
  
  sureties, to appear and furnish before the court within a period not exceeding
  
  one year, a report regarding the result of his medical treatment and, in the
  
  meantime, to abstain from the commission of any offence under Chapter IV.
  (2) If it appears to the court, having regard to the report
  
  regarding the result of the medical treatment furnished under sub-section (1),
  
  that it is expedient so to do, the court may direct the release of the offender
  
  after due admonition on his entering into a bond in the form prescribed by the
  
  Central Government, with or without sureties, for abstaining from the
  
  commission of any offence under Chapter IV during such period not exceeding
  
  three years as the court may deem fit to specify or on his failure so to
  
  abstain , to appear before the court and receive sentence when called upon
  
  during such period.