Power to enter, search, arrest and seize

(1) Any police officer not below the rank of the office-in-charge of the police station may— (a) enter, if necessary be reasonable force, whether by day or night, with such assistance as he considers necessary any premises, which he has reason to suspect, are being used for the purposes connected with exhibition of video films or keeping Video Library in contravention of the provisions of this Act; (b) search the premises and persons against whom he may have reasonable suspicion of their having been concerned with giving such exhibition of video film or keeping the Video Library; (c) arrest without warrant and produce before a Judicial Magistrate all such persons as are concerned or against whom a reasonable complaint has been made or credible information has been received or a reasonable suspicion exists of their having been concerned with giving of the exhibition of video film or keeping a Video Library in contravention of the provisions of this Act; (d) seize all things found therein which are intended to be used or reasonably suspected to have been used in connection with such exhibition of Video film or keeping Video Library. (2) All searches under this section shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974). (3) Every offence punishable under this Act shall be a cognizable offence within the meaning of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.