Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) It shall be lawful for any Police Officer not below the rank of 25[an officer of and above the rank of Sub-Inspector of Police] elsewhere,- (a) to enter, if necessary by force, whether by day or night with such assistance as be considers necessary, any premises, which he has reason to suspect, are being used for purposes connected with the recording on any film or the exhibition of films on the television screen through video cassette recorder or keeping a video library or selling recorded video cassettes in contravention of the provisions of this Act; (b) to search the premises and persons found therein; (c) to take into custody and produce before Judicial Magistrate all such persons as are concerned or against whom a reasonable compliant has been made or credible information has been received or a reasonable suspicion exists of their having been concerned with the exhibition of film or keeping a video library or selling recorded video cassettes in contravention of the provisions of this Act; (d) to seize all things found therein which are intended to be used or reasonably suspected to have been used in connection with such recording on any film or with such exhibition of film or selling recorded video cassettes or keeping a video library.