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SECTION 24: POLICE OR ABKARI DAROGA HOW TO PROCEED IN CASE OF ILLEGAL CULTIVATION Whenever a police or abkari daroga or opium gumashta shall receive intelligence of any land within his jurisdiction having been illegally cultivated with poppy, he shall immediately proceed to the spot, and, if the information be correct, shall attach the crop so illegally cultivated, and report the same without delay to the authority to which he may be subordinate. He shall at the same time take security from the cultivator of the said land for his appearance before the Magistrate; and, in the event of such cultivator not giving the required security; he shall send him in custody to the Magistrate.