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Offering for personal search by police officer before recovery. - There is no provi- sion in the Cr.P.c. that the police officer before recovering any incriminating article from the accused should offer himself for search. The principle of offering for search by the police of- ficer at such juncture is a rule of caution. The basic principle in doing so is to avoid the pos- sibility of planting incriminating material by the police officer on the person of the accused when search is made. In case the article which is alleged to have been recovered is of such a nature that it can be concealed by the police officer on his person, it is necessary that he should offer himself for search to the accused. But if the volume of the article which is to be recovered is such that it cannot be concealed bY6him on his person, then it is not necessary for him to offer himself for search to the accused.