Power to enter and search any suspected house, etc.

(1) If the District Superintendent of Police (includes Assistant Superintendent of Police or other officer of the Police not below the rank of sub-inspector or any other officer authorized by the Chief Commissioner in this behalf, or on information and after such inquiry as he may think necessary, has reason to believe that any place is used as a common gaming house, he may either himself or by warrant authorise any police officer not below the rank of sub-inspector: (a) To enter, with the assistance of such persons as may be found necessary, by force if necessary, any such place; (b) To take into custody all persons whom he finds therein, whether or not actually gaming; (c) To seize all moneys and articles of value reasonably suspected to have been used for the purpose of gaming or intended to be used for the purpose of gaming; (d) To search all parts of such place which he has entered and to seize all instruments of gaming which are found therein; (2) Searches under sub-section (1) shall be made in accordance with the provisions of section 102 and section 103 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. (3) Any police officer who has entered, under sub-section (1), any place, shall, after the completion of such search, without undue delay, submit a report to a magistrate to whom he is directed by sub-section 1 of section 102 of the code, in which he shall record all the particulars of the case including the name of the person arrested and the article seized.