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CHAPTER VIII. DETECTION, INVESTIGATION AND TRIAL OF OFFENCES.

Section 54: Power of Magistrate to issue a warrant

The Telangana Excise Act, 1968

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Telangana (Revenue Department): the Andhra Pradesh Excise Act, 1968 as in force in the combined State on 2 June 2014, adapted to Telangana under section 101 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 by the notification issued in G.O.Ms.No.162, Revenue (Excise-II) Department, dated 10.09.2015, with amendments up to Act No.32 of 2017.

Amendments made by Andhra Pradesh after 2 June 2014, such as A.P. Acts 2, 4 and 17 of 2020, do not apply in Telangana and are not in this text.

If a Magistrate, upon information and after such enquiry, if any, as he thinks necessary, has reason to believe that an offence under section 34, section 35, section 36, or section 37 has been, is being or is likely to be, committed, he may issue a warrant,-

(a) for the search of any place in which he has reason to believe that any intoxicant, still, utensil, implement, apparatus or materials which are used for the commission of such offence or in respect which such offence has been, is being, or is likely to committed, are kept or concealed; and

(b) for the arrest of any person whom he has reason to believe to have been, to be, or to be likely to be, engaged in the commission of any such offence.