(a) Every owner or occupier of land or any building and the agent of any owner of land or any building on which –
(b) Every lambardar, village headman, village accountant, village watchman, village policeman and every officer employed in the collection of the revenue or rent of land on the part of Government or the Court of Wards in whose village – There shall be any manufacture of illegal important or collection of any intoxicant not licensed under 37 this Act, or any unlawful cultivation of any plants from which an intoxicating drug can be produced, shall be bound, in the absence of reasonable excuse, to give notice of the same to a magistrate or to an officer of the excise, police or land revenue department as soon as the fact comes to his knowledge.
Duty of officer in-charge of police station to take charge of articles seized.
53. Every officer in-charge of a police station shall take charge of, and keep in safe custody, pending the orders of a magistrate or of the Collector or of an officer empowered under Section 46 (1) to investigate the case, all articles seized under this Act which may be delivered to him, and shall allow any excise officer who may accompany such articles to the police station, or may be deputed for the purpose by his superior officer to affix his seal to the articles and take samples of and from them.
All samples so taken shall also be sealed with the seal of the officer-in-charge of the police station.
Power to close shops for the sake of public peace.