law: Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
  48. 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
  
  Government 14[or any officer of a gazetted rank empowered under
  
  section 42] may order attachment of any opium poppy, cannabis 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.