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Inquiry how to be made by excise officers against arrested persons forwarded to them.-(1) When any person is forwarded under Sec. 15 to an excise officer empowered to send persons so arrested to a Magistrate. the Excise Officer shall proceed to inquire into the charge against him. (2) For the purpose of sub-section (1), the Excise Officer may exercise the same powers, and shall be subject to the salve provisions, as the officer-in-charge of a police station may exercise and is subject to under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), when investigating a cognizable case: Provided that- (u) if the. Excise Officer is of opinion that there is sufficient evidence or reasonable ground of suspicion against the ac- cused person he shall either admit him to bail to appear before Magistrate having jurisdiction In the case, or forward him in custody without. delay to such Magistrate; (ii) if it appears to the Excise Officer that there is not. sufficient evidence or reasonable ground of suspicion against the ac- cused person, he shall release the accused person on his executing a bond with or without sureties as the Excise Officer may direct. to appear, if and when so required, before the