(1) All Officer-in-charge of a Police Station shall take charge of and keep in safe custody, pending the order of a Collector or other Officer empowered under section 42 to investigate the case, all articles seized under this Act which may accompany such articles to the Police Station or may be deputed for the purpose of an official superior to affix his seal to such articles and to take samples of and from them.
(2) All samples so taken shall also be sealed with the seal of the officer-in-charge of the Police Station.
Report of arrests, seizure and searches.
46. When any Excise Officer below the rank of a Collector or Officer-in-charge of a Police Station makes or receives the information of any arrest, seizure or search under this Act he shall within twenty-four hours thereafter, make a full report of the particulars of the arrests, seizure or search of the information received to the Collector, and to the other officer, if any, empowered under sub-section (2) section 42 within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the arrest, seizure or search was made.
Procedure in executing • warrants and in making arrests and search.