Section 508: Forcible entry for purpose of executing warrant

508. It shall be lawful for a [Corporation] officer to whom a warrant issued under section 507 is addressed, to break open, at any time between sunrise and sunset, any outer or inner door or window of a building, in order to make the distress directed in the warrant in the following circumstances and not otherwise-

(a) if the warrant contains a special order authorizing him in this behalf ;

(b) if he has reasonable grounds for believing that the building contains property which is liable to seizure under the warrant; and

(c) if, after notifying his authority and purpose and duly demanding admittance he cannot otherwise obtain admittance :

Provided that such officer shall not enter or break open the door of an apartment appropriated for women, until he has given any women therein an opportunity to withdraw.