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If a District Magistrate or ;:i. District Superintendent o( Police has reason to believe that any house, room, office, enclo- .sure, space, vehicle, vessel, tent or place is used as betting house; he may e:ther himself enter or by his warrant authorise an officer of Police not below the rank of a Suh-Inspector to enter with such assistance as may be found necessary by night or by day and by force if neces- sary any such house, room, office, enclosure, space, vehicle, vessel, tent or plac.e; and may either himself or by the Police Officer authorised as above take into custody, all persons whom he or such officer. finds therein, whether or not then actually betting i and may either himself or by such Police Officer as authorised as above, seize all things reasonably sus- pected to be instruments of betting or records of betting and all moneys and securities for money and articles of value reasonably suspected to have been used or intended to be used for the purpose of betting on a game or sport ; and may either himse1:- ~r the Police Officer as authorised above, search all parts ofthe house, room. office, enclosure, space, vehicle, vessel, tent or place which he or such officer ~hall have so entered when he or such officer has reason to believe that any instru- ments of betting or records of betting are concealed 01 kept therein, and also the persons of those whom he or such offi1:er so takes into custody ; "' L and either he 6r such officer may .. eize and take possession of all thinis reasonably suspected to be jn- struments of betting or records of betting founrl upon such search, or used or intended to be used in bett- ing. Presumption