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For section 68 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely :— “68. Any officer not below the rank of Collector having sufficient reason to believe that, it is necessary to inspect or call for any registers, books, records including a diskette, magnetic cartridge tape, CD-ROM or any other computer readable media or any electronic record mentioned under clause (t) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, papers, documents, instruments or proceedings which may lead to the discovery of any fraud or omission in relation to any duty, shall, at all reasonable times may himself or through any officer authorised by him in this behalf, who shall be not below the rank of Gazetted Group–B officer or Sub-Registrar, Grade-I appointed under the Registration Act, 1908 or Inspector of Stamps, enter in any premises and inspect the same in the custody of any person, office, firm or any other entity and take such notes and extracts as he may deem necessary, without payment of any fee or charge, and if necessary, seize and impound only the chargeable documents as per the provisions of section 33 ”.