Maharashtra Police Act 1951
Section 65 :
Power to enter places of public resort :
(1) Every Police Officer, may, subject to the rules and orders made by the State Government or by a person lawfully authorised, enter for any of the purposes referred to in section 64 without a warrant, and inspect any place of public resort which he has reason to believe is used as drinking shop, or a shop for the sale of intoxicating drugs or a place of resort of loose and disorderly characters.
Power to search suspected persons in a street
(2) When in a street or a place of public resort a person has possession or apparent possession of any article which a Police Officer in good faith suspects to be stolen property, such Police Officer may search for and examine the same and may require an account thereof, and should the account given by the possessor by manifestly false or suspicious, may detain such article and report the facts to a Magistrate, who shall thereon proceed according to sections 523 and 525 of the 1.[Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898], or other law in force.
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1. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 ( 2 of 1974).
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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
Section 523 :
Procedure by police upon seizure of property taken under section 51 or stolen :
May be same as Criminal Procedure Code 1973 (2 of 1974 ) section 457.
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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
Section 525 :
Power to sell pershable property :
May be same as Criminal Procedure Code 1973 (2 of 1974 ) section 459.
