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CHAPTER VIII. DETECTION, INVESTIGATION AND TRIAL OF OFFENCES.

Section 58: Report by 1[Prohibition and Excise Officer]

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.

Where any 1[Prohibition and Excise Officer] not below the rank of an Excise Sub-Inspector makes any arrest, seizure or search under this Act, he shall, within twenty-four hours thereafter–

(a) make a full report of all the particulars of the arrest, seizure or search to his immediate official superior, and

(b) unless bail be accepted under section 60, take or send the person arrested or the thing seized, with all convenient dispatch, to the nearest Magistrate for trial or adjudication.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Throughout the Act For Substituted 1. Excise Officer - Prohibition and Excise Officer 2. Commissioner of Excise - Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise 3. Additional Commissioner of Excise - Additional Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise 4. Deputy Commissioner of Excise - Deputy Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise 5. Assistant Commissioner of Excise - Assistant Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise 6. Excise Superintendent - $Prohibition and Excise Superintendent 7. Assistant Excise Superintendent - Assistant Prohibition and Excise and Superintendent 8. Excise Department - Prohibition and Excise Department [vide. Act No.17 of 1995.]