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Section 52: Power to arrest without warrant to seize article l iable to confiscation and to make searches

MP Excise ActState Act of Madhya Pradesh · Act 11 of 1915

( l) Any Excise Officer, or any Police Officer not below such rank as the State Government may, by notification, prescribe, or single officer or class of officers of the Revenue Department duly empowered in this behalf by notification of the State Government subject to such restrict ions as the State Government may prescribe, and any other person duly empowered by notification by the State Government in this behalf ,— 40

(a) may arrest without warrant any person found committing an offence punishable under Sect ion 23 -A, 34, 35, 36, 36-A, 36-B, 36-C, 37, 38- A, 40 or 49-A; and

(b) shall seize and detain airy intoxicant or other art icle s which he has reason to believe to be l iable to confiscation under this Act or any other law for the t ime being in force relating to exercise revenue; and

(c) may detain and search any person upon whom, any vessel , craft , vehicle, animal, package, receptacle, or covering in or upon which he may have reasonable cause to suspect any such art icle to be.

(2) When any person is accused or reasonably suspected of committing an offence t inder this Act, and on demand of such officer refuses to give his name and residence or gives a name and residence which such officer has reason to believe to be false, he may be arrested by such officer in order that his name and res idence may be ascertained.

Where this provision sits

ActMP Excise Act
Section52
Marginal notePower to arrest without warrant to seize article l iable to confiscation and to make searches
JurisdictionState of Madhya Pradesh
StatusIn force as published by the source

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