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SECTION 23: DUTY OF POLICE AND OTHER OFFICER TO GIVE INFORMATION OF ILLEGAL CULTIVATION All police and abkari darogas, and opium gumashtas, and all 40 [* * *] officers of the Government of whatever description, and all chaukidars, paiks and other village police officers shall give immediate information to the authority to which they are subordinate when it may come to their knowledge that any land has been illegally cultivated with poppy; and such authority shall transmit the information to the 41 [district opium officer] or other officer superintending the cultivation of the poppy, if in a district where the poppy is cultivated on account of 42 [the Central Government], or to the Collector or officer in charge of the abkari mahal if in a district where the poppy is not so cultivated. Every police or abkari daroga, opium gumashta, 40 [* * *] officer, chaukidar or other police officer as aforesaid, who shall neglect to give such information, or shall in any respect connive at the illicit cultivation of the poppy, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees if the offender be an officer of the Opium Department, or in any other case to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees.