Issue of Warrant

(1) A Deputy Commissioner, Additional Deputy Commissioner or a Sub-Divisional Officer (Civil) or a Magistrate of the First Class, or an Officer of the Excise Department not below the rank of a Superintendent Specially empowered by the State Government on this behalf, may issue a warrant for the arrest of any person whom he has reason to believe to have committed an offence whom he has reason to believer to have committed an offence punishable under this Act or the rules thereunder, or for the search. Whether by day or by night, of any buildings, vessels or places in which he has reason to believe that any liquor material, utensil, implement or apparatus, in respect or which an offence punishable under this Act has been comraited, is kept or concealed. (2) The Officer to whom a search warrant under sub section (1) is addressed shall have all the powers of an officer under Section 37.