Cantonments Act,1924
Act No : 2
Section : ARREST OF PERSONS AND SEIZURE AND CONFISCATION OF
SECTION 58: ARREST OF PERSONS AND SEIZURE AND CONFISCATION OF
things for offences against the two last foregoing sections
(1) Any police officer or excise officer may, without an order from ab[Judicial Magistrate] and without a warrant, arrest any person whom he finds committing an offence undersection 56orsection 57, and may seize and detain any spirituous liquor or intoxicating drug in respect of which such an offence has been committed and any vessels or coverings in which the liquor or drug is contained.
(2) Where a person accused of an offence undersection 56has been previously convicted of an offence under that section, an officer in charge of a police station may, with the written permission of ab[Judicial Magistrate], seize and detain any spirituous liquor or intoxicating drug within the cantonment or within any limits defined under that section which, at the time of the alleged commission of the subsequent offence, belonged to, or was in the possession .of, such person.
(3) The Court convicting a person of an offence undersection 56orsection 57may order the confiscation of the whole or any part of anything seized under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2).
(4) Subject to the provisions ofa[Chapter 34 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, anything seized under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) and not confiscated under sub-section (3) shall be restored to the person from whom it was taken.
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