(4) The provisions of this Code as to searchwarrants 1[and the general provisions as to searches
contained in section 102 and section 103] shall, so far may be, apply to a search made under this section.
2[(5) Copies of any record made under subsection (1) or subsection (3) shall forthwith be sent to the
nearest Magistrate empowered to take cognizance of the offence and the owner or occupier of the place
searched shall on application be furnished with a copy of the same by the Magistrate:
Provided that he shall pay for the same unless the Magistrate for some special reason thinks fit to furnish
it free of cost.]
166. When officer in charge of policestation may require another to issue search warrant.__(1) An
officer in charge of a policestation 3[or a policeofficer not being below the rank of subinspector making an
investigation] may require an officer in charge of another policestation, whether in the same or a different
district, to cause a search to be made in any place, in any case in which the former officer might cause such
search to be made, within the limits of his own station.
(2) Such officer, on being so required, shall proceed according to the provisions of section 165, and shall
forward the thing found, if any, to the officer at whose request the search was made.
[(3) Whenever there is reason to believe that the delay occasioned by requiring an officer in charge of
another policestation to cause a search to be made under subsection (1) might result in evidence of the
commission of an offence being concealed or destroyed, it shall be lawful for an officer in charge of�� a
policestation or a policeofficer making an investigation under this Chapter to search, or cause to be
searched, any place in the limits of another policestation, in accordance with the provisions of section 165,
as if such place were within the limits of his own station.
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(4) Any officer conducting a search under subsection (3) shall forthwith send notice of the search to the
officer in charge of the policestation within the limits of which such place is situate, and shall also send with
such notice a copy of the list (if any) prepared under section 103, and shall also send to the nearest
Magistrate empowered to take cognizance of the offence, copies of the records referred to in section 165,
subsections (1) and (3).
(5) The owner or occupier of the place searched shall, on application, be furnished with a copy of any
record sent to the Magistrate under subsection (4):
Provided that he shall pay for the same unless the Magistrate for some special reason thinks fit to furnish
it free of cost.]
1 Subs. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amdt.) Act, 1968 (3 of 1968), s. 3, for fullstop (w.e.f. 2151968).
2 Ins., by Act, 18 of 1923, s.36.
3 Ins. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amdt.) Act, 1923 (18 of 1923), s. 37.
4 SubSections (3) to (5) were added ibid.
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