Delivery of possession of records and properties of market committee.

(1) Where a Special Officer is appointed under section 33 and such Special Officer is resisted in, or prevented from, obtaining possession of the books, accounts, documents, securities, cash and other properties, whether movable or immovable, of the market committee (hereafter in this section referred to as the records and properties of the market committee), by any person who is not entitled to be in possession of the records and properties of the market committee, any Metropolitan Magistrate or any Judicial Magistrate of the first class in whose jurisdiction of the office of the market committee or the records and properties of that market committee is situate or are kept shall, on application by the Special Officer and on the production of the order of appointment, and of a certificate by the Director in the prescribed form setting forth that the records and properties mentioned therein belong to the market committee, direct delivery to the Special Officer, of the possession of the records and properties of the market committee. (2) Every application under sub-section (1) shall be accompanied nu a copy of the order made under section 33. (3) On receipt of an application under sub-section (1), the Metropolitan Magistrate or the Judicial Magistrate of the first class, as the case may be, shall by a warrant, authorise any police officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspection of Police to enter and search any place where the records and properties of the market committee are kept or believed to be kept and to seize such records and properties ; and the records and properties so seized shall be handed over to the Special Officer. (4) All searches and seizures made under this section shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974), relating to search or seizure made under the authority of a warrant issued by a magistrate.