Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The 3[State] Government may empower any Prohibition Offi cer to investigate offences under this Act. (2) An offi cer empowered under sub-section (1) shall in the conduct of such investigation exercise the powers conferred by the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, upon an offi cer-in-charge of a Police Station for the investigation of cognizable offences. (3) Any Prohibition Offi cer to whom such offi cer is subordinate may, during the course of the investigation, take over the investigation himself or direct any other Prohibition Offi cer duly empowered to conduct the same. The offi cer in conducting the investigation shall have the same power under sub-sections (1) and (2), as if he were the Porhibition Offi cer appointed for the area or for the purpose of investigating the said offence. (4) If the Prohibition Offi cer conducting the investigation is of opinion that there is not suffi cient evidence or reasonable ground of suspicion to justify the for- warding of the accused to a Magistrate, or that the person arrested may be discharged with a warning, such offi cer shall release him on his excepting a bond with or with- out sureties, to appear, if and when so required, before a Magistrate empowered to take cognizance of the offence, and shall make a full report of the case to his offi cial superior and be guided by the order which he shall receive on such report.