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Section 98

Search of house suspected to contain stolen property, forged documents, etc.

  1. If a [* * * [* *][1]
    1. to enter, with such assistance as may be required, such place, and
    2. to search the same in manner specified in the warrant, and
    3. to take possession of any property, documents, seals, stamps [6] or coins therein found which he reasonably suspects to be stolen, unlawfully obtained, forged, false or counterfeit, and also of any such instruments and materials [4] as aforesaid, and
    4. to convey such property, documents, seals, stamps, [6] coins, instruments or materials [4] before a Magistrate, or to guard the same on the spot until the offender is taken before a Magistrate, or otherwise to dispose thereof in some place of safety, and
    5. to take into custody and carry before a Magistrate every person found in such place who appears to have been privy to the deposit, sale or manufacture or keeping of any such property, documents, seals, stamps, [6] coins, instruments or materials [4] knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect the said property to have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained, or the said documents, seals, stamps, coins, instruments or materials to have been forged, falsified or counterfeited, or the said instruments or materials to have been or to be intended to be used for [1] [2] [3] [4]
  2. The provisions of this section with respect to__
    1. counterfeit coin,
    2. coin suspected to be counterfeit, and
    3. instruments or materials for counterfeiting coin,
    shall, so far as they can be made applicable, apply respectively to__
    1. pieces of metal made in contravention of the Metal Tokens Act,1889 (I of 1889), or brought into [3] in contravention of any notification for the time being in force under [4] [5] ,
    2. pieces of metal suspected to have been so made or to have been so brought into [3] or to be intended to be issued in contravention of the former of those Acts, and
    3. instruments or materials for making pieces of metal in contravention of that Act.
Annotations (5)
  • star_omission [1] ] Magistrate of the first class, upon information and after such inquiry as he thinks 1 2 necessary, has reason to believe that any place is used for the deposit or sale of stolen property, or for the deposit or sale or manufacture of forged documents, false seals or counterfeit stamps <sup>[3]</sup> or for forging, or that any forged documents, false seals or counterfeit stamps <sup>[3]</sup> or for forging, are kept or deposited in any place, <sup>[4]</sup> he may by his warrant authorize any police-officer above the rank of a constable__ ↩
  • amendment [1] . by Ord. No. XXXVII of 2001, ss. 25-27. ↩
  • annotation [2] “Presidency Magistrate” omitted, Adaptation of Central Acts and Ordinances Order, 1949 (Order No. 4 of 1949), Art. 3 and Sch. ↩
  • amendment [3] the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1972 (XII of 1972), s. 2. and Sch., for “or coin, or instruments or materials for counterfeiting coin or stamps”. ↩
  • amendment [4] the Obscene Publications Act, 1925 (VIII of 1925), s. 3. 5 The commas and words “, if a District Magistrate, or a Sub-divisional Magistrate, upon information and after such inquiry as he thinks necessary, has reason to believe that any place is used” omitted by the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1972 (XII of 1972), s. 2. and Sch. 6 Ins. ibid. *SIC. “stamps” is superfluous. counterfeiting coin <sup>[1]</sup> or for forging <sup>[2]</sup> . ↩

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