Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Any police officer, or any other person empowered In this behalf by the Government, may seize any unauthorised news-sheet or unauthorised newspaper, wherever found. (2) Any District Magistrate or Magistrate of the first class may by warrant authorise any police officer not below the rank of Inspector to enter upon and search any place where any stock of unauthorised news-sheets or unauthorised newspapers may be or may be reasonably suspected to be, and such police officer may seize any documents found in such place which In his opinion, are unauthorised news-sheets or unauthorised newspapers. (3) All documents seized under sub-section (1) shall be produced as soon as may be before a District Magistrate or Magistrate of the first class and all documents seized under sub-section (2) shall be produced as soon as may be before the Court, or the Magistrate who issued the warrant. (4) If, in the opinion of such Magistrate or Court, any of such documents are unauthorised news-sheets or unauthorised newspapers, the Magistrate or Court may cause them to be destroyed. If, in the opinion of such Magistrate or Court, any of such documents are not unauthorised news-sheets or unauthorised newspapers, such Magistrate or Court shall dispose of them in the manner provided in sections 436, 437 and 438 of the Travancore Code of Criminal Procedure, or sections 422, 423 and 424 of the Cochin Code of Criminal Procedure, as the case may be.