CHAPTER-V DETECTION, INVESTIGATION AND TRIAL OF OFFENCES.

Section 18: Powers of entry without search warrant

The Telangana Prohibition Act, 1995

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Telangana (Revenue Department): the Andhra Pradesh Prohibition Act, 1995 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.6, Revenue (Excise-II) Department, dated 06.01.2016, with amendments up to Act No.17 of 2006.

The heading of Chapter IV carries a footnote that cannot be shown with the heading: "Chapter IV consisting of sections 15 and 16 substituted by Act No. 5 of 1997, consisting of section 15."

Whenever, a Collector, any Prohibition Officer or any Police Officer, ¹[not below the rank of a Sub-Inspector], any officer in charge of a Police Station, has reason to believe that an offence under ¹[section 7, section 7A or section 8] has been committed and that the delay occasioned by obtaining search warrant under section 17 will prevent the execution there of, he may, after recording the reasons and the grounds of his belief, at any time by day or night enter and search any place and may seize anything found therein which he has reason to believe to be liable to confiscation under this Act; and may detain and search and, if he thinks proper, arrest any person found in such place whom he has reason to believe to be guilty of any offence under this Act and also seize and detain any excisable or other article which he has reason to believe to be liable to confiscation under this Act.

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Footnotes in the official text

1.Substituted by Act No.35 of 1995.
2.Proviso omitted by Act No.35 of 1995.