Short answer. Possibly. Section 22 lets the Dangerous Drugs Board recommend compensation, a reward or an award to a person whose information leads to a successful seizure, and to the law enforcers involved. It is a recommendation to the concerned agency, not a self-executing right to a fixed sum you can simply claim.
What the law says
The Board shall recommend to the concerned government agency the grant of compensation, reward and award to any person providing information and to law enforcers participating in the operation, which results in the successful confiscation, seizure or surrender of dangerous drugs
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What the section actually authorises
Section 22 provides that the Board shall recommend to the concerned government agency the grant of compensation, reward and award to any person providing information and to law enforcers participating in the operation, which results in the successful confiscation, seizure or surrender of dangerous drugs. So the law does contemplate rewarding informants — and, notably, the officers who took part as well. It sets up a mechanism through the Dangerous Drugs Board rather than leaving rewards to informal arrangement, which is the point of putting it in the statute at all.
It is a recommendation, not an entitlement
The operative verb is recommend. The Board does not itself hand out the money; it recommends the grant to the concerned government agency, which is where the actual decision and payment sit. That matters for expectations. Providing useful information does not create an automatic, enforceable claim to a set amount that a person can demand as of right. It opens the door to a recommendation, and the outcome then depends on the agency that receives it. Reading the section as a guaranteed bounty overstates what its words provide.
The condition: a successful result
The reward is tied to a result. The section speaks of an operation which results in the successful confiscation, seizure or surrender of dangerous drugs, their plant sources, or controlled precursors and essential chemicals. Information that does not lead to a successful seizure does not fit the provision. The link between the information given and the successful operation is therefore central — the section rewards intelligence that produces a concrete enforcement outcome, not a tip that goes nowhere or a report made after the fact.
What the section leaves open
Section 22 does not fix an amount, a formula, or the procedure for claiming — those are matters for the concerned agency and the Board's own rules, not spelled out in this provision. This is also an area where an informant's safety and anonymity are practical concerns that sit outside the reward question entirely. Anyone thinking of coming forward, and hoping to be considered for compensation, is better served by taking advice on how and to whom to report than by relying on the bare promise of a reward in the text.