Securing possession of records etc.

(1) If the Committee of a Society is reconstituted at a general meeting of the Society or is removed by the Registrar under Section 32 or if the Society is ordered to be wound up under Section 72 and the outgoing members of the Committee refuse to handover charge of the records and property of the Society to the new Committee or the Administrators or the Society appointed under Section 32 or the liquidator, as the case may be, such Committee, Administrators, Society or liquidator, as the case may be, may apply through the Registrar or any person empowered by the Registrar to the Sub-divisional Officer having jurisdiction for securing such records and property. (2) The Registrar may, if he has reason to believe that any records of any Society are likely to be tampered with or suppressed or that any property of any Society is likely to be removed or misappropriated, authorise any person to enter and search any place where such records or property are kept or are believed to be kept and to seize such records and property.