The Police Officer may seize any property which he suspect to have been a stolen one, otherwise, the circumstances in which those properties were found raise doubt over commission of any offence.
The Police Officer immediately report his seizure to his Incharge of the Police Station if he is subordinate to him.
The Police Officer must immediately report the seizure to the Jurisdiction Magistrate and if the property can never be transported to the Court he give custody of the same to any other person upon his executing a bond and produce the property in the Court as and when required or any other Order allowing its disposal by the Court.
Magistrate, if required to be make searches in his presence at any place, if he is competent to issue a Search Warrant.
Under this Code any Court can impound any document if it thinks fit.
The Court, functions within the territories of the Code of Criminal Procedures applies or extends, can
- Issue a Summons to an Accused person, or
- Issue Warrant of Arrest of an Accused person, or
- Issue Summons to a person to appear and produce a document or other thing
- Issue a Search Warrant
Which could be served or executed at any place within the local jurisdiction of any Court in any State or territory in India, it can send Summons or Warrant in duplicate by post to the concerned person or it could also be sent to the Presiding Officer of that Court where he resides or stay for its service or execution. Whereas, Section 68 of Cr.P.C, shall apply in the case of servicing of Summons.
Provided the Summons or Warrant requires to be serviced or executed outside the territories of India, then the Central Government may have arrangements with other Government where the addressee resides or operates, it may send such Summons or Warrant in duplicate in such form directed to such Court, Judge or Magistrate for transmission to the addressee.
When a Court in the said territories receives a Summons or Warrant for service or execution –
- A Summons to an Accused person, or
- A Warrant for the Arrest of an Accused person, or
- A Summons to any person to appear and produce a document or other thing
- A Search Warrant
Issued by a Court in any State in India outside the said territories;
A contracting State [Country outside Indian territories] Court or Judge or Magistrate, which may serve the Summons or execute a Warrant as such it was issued by a local Court of that Country and where;
- A Warrant of Arrest is executed the arrested person shall be dealt to an extent under Section 80 and 81 of Cr.P.C.
- A Search Warrant is executed then it shall be dealt according to the procedure prescribed in Section 101 of Cr.P.C.
The Court of the Contracting State who executed a Warrant or Summons and should have procured any documents or things it shall forward to the Court who issued Warrant or Summons through such authority as per the advisories of the Central Government in this regard.