Section 90
Search with warrant
If it appears to a Magistrate upon written information on oath and after such enquiry as he considers necessary that there is reasonable cause to believe that in any building or place or on any land there is concealed or deposited any forest produce in respect of which a forest offence is being or has been committed, the Magistrate may issue a warrant authorizing any forest officer not below the rank of Assistant District Forest Officer or any police officer named therein, by day or night and with or without assistance, to enter the building, place or land and there search for and seize, and therefrom remove, any forest produce in respect of which the forest offence has or is suspected to have been committed and any machinery, tool, book, document or other things that is reasonably believed to furnish evidence of the commission of the offence.
(2)
Any forest officer or police officer acting under subsection (1)
may—
(a)
break open any outer or inner door of the building or place or any fence, enclosure, gate or other obstruction to the land, in order to effect entry thereinto;
(b)
remove by force any obstruction to such entry, search, seizure and removal as he is empowered to effect under subsection (1); and
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(c)
detain every person found in the building or place or on the land until it has been searched.