Section 48
Power to seize property
of Wild Life Protection Ordinance, 1998
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Where there is reason to believe that an offence under this Ordinance has been committed, any animal or any recognizable part or derivative thereof, or any plant or any recognizable part or derivative thereof, together with all weapons, instruments, machinery and contrivances used in the commission of such offence, may be seized by any Wild Life Officer, police officer or customs officer.
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Every officer seizing any property under this section shall place on such property, or on the receptacle, if any, in which it has been contained, a mark indicating that it has been so seized, and shall, without unnecessary delay, make a report of such seizure to a
Magistrate having jurisdiction to try the offence in respect of which the seizure has been made:
Provided that, in any case where such property has been seized in connection with an offence compounded under section 47, it shall not be necessary to report to a Magistrate the seizure there of, and such property shall be disposed of in such manner as the Controller shall think fit.