Maharashtra Police Act 1951
Section 86 :
Delivery of property to person entitled :
(1) The Commissioner 1.[or, the Superintendent] or the Magistrate concerned, as the case may be, shall, on being satisfied of the title of any claimant to the possession or administration of the property specified in the proclamation issued under sub-section (1) of section 85, order the same to be delivered to him, after deduction or payment of the expenses properly incurred by the Police in the seizure and detention thereof.
Power to take security
(2) The Commissioner 2.[or, the Superintendent] or the Magistrate concerned, as the case may be, may, at his discretion, before making any order under sub-section (1), take such security as he may think proper from the person to whom the said property is to be delivered, and nothing hereinbefore contained shall affect the right of any person to recover the whole or any part of the same from the person to whom it may have been delivered pursuant to such order.
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1. Inserted by Bombay 34 of 1959, Section 28(2).
