FORM NO. 12 - WARRANT TO SEARCH SUSPECTED PLACE OF DEPOSIT - Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

FORM No. 12 WARRANT TO SEARCH SUSPECTED PLACE OF DEPOSIT (See section 97) To.............................................. (name and designation of the police officer above the rank of a constable). WHEREAS information has been laid before me, and on due inquiry thereupon had, I have been led to believe that the..............................................(describe the house or other place) is used as a place for the deposit (or sale) of stolen property (or if for either of the other purposes expressed in the section, state the purpose in the words of the section); This is to authorise and require you to enter the said house (or other place) with such assistance as shall be required, and to use, if necessary, reasonable force for that purpose, and to search every part of the said house (or other place, or if the search is to be confined to a part, specify the part clearly), and to seize and take possession of any property (or documents, or stamps, or seals, or coins, or obscene objects, as the case may be) (add, when the case requires it) and also of any instruments and materials which you may reasonably believe to be kept for the manufacture of forged documents, or counterfeit stamps, or false seals, or counterfeit coins or counterfeit currency notes (as the case may be), and forthwith to bring before this Court such of the said things as may be taken possession of, returning this warrant, with an endorsement certifying what you have done under it, immediately upon its execution. Dated, this.............................................. day of.............................................. , 20 ............ . (Seal of the Court) (Signature)