19. Forfeiture of assets of an offender. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 13, where
the Special Court finds a person guilty of an offence punishable under this Act and sentences him to
imprisonment for a term exceeding three years, the Court shall order that his assets derivable from
trafficking in narcotic substances shall stand forfeited to the Federal Government unless it is satisfied,
for which the burden of proof shall rest on the accused, that they or any part thereof, have not been
so acquired.
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CHAPTER III
SEARCH AND INVESTIGATION
20. Power to issue warrants. __ (1) A Special Court may issue a warrant for the arrest of any
person whom it has reason to believe to have committed an offence punishable under this Act, or for
the search, whether by day or by night, of any building, place, premises or conveyance in which he
has reason to believe any narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or controlled substance in respect of
which an offence punishable under this Act has been committed is kept or concealed.
(2) The officer to whom a search warrant under sub‑section (1) is addressed shall have all the
powers of an officer acting under section 21.
21. Power of entry, search, seizure and arrest without warrant. __ (1) Where an officer, not
below the rank of Sub‑Inspector of Police or equivalent authorized in this behalf by the Federal
Government or the Provincial Government, who from his personal knowledge or from information
given to him by any person is of opinion that any narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or controlled
substance in respect of which an offence punishable under this Act has been committed is kept or
concealed in any building, place, premises or conveyance, and a warrant for arrest or search cannot
be obtained against such person without affording him an opportunity for the concealment of
evidence or facility for his escape, such officer may—
(a) enter into any such building, place, premises or conveyance;
(b) breakopen any door and remove any other obstacle to such entry in case of resistance;
(c) seize such narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and controlled substances and other
materials used in the manufacture thereof and any other article which he has reason to
believe to be liable to confiscation under this Act and any document or other article
which he has reason to believe may furnish evidence of the commission of an offence
punishable under this Act; and
(d) detain, search and, if he thinks proper, arrest any person whom he has reason to believe to
have committed an offence punishable under this Act.
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