Provided that no appeal shall be decided without giving the appel- lant an opportunity of being heard.

Power to check and seize motor vehicles

1. (1) Any police officer in uniform or other officer of the State Government, not below such rank as may be prescribed, may---
   • (a) check any motor vehicle either in its garage between the hours of sun rise and sun set or stop and check any motor

such vehicle has been paid and.

1. (b) seize and detain the vehicle if he is authorised by the State Government in this behalf and if he has reasons to

believe that motor vehicle has been or is being used or

kept for use in contravention of the provisions of section

5, section 7 or section 8, and may take or cause to be

taken such steps as he may consider necessary for the temporary safe custody of the vehicle so seized and detained unless the owner or the person in charge of the vehicle executes a bond for the production thereof before a court when so required.

1. (2) Any motor vehicle seized and detained under clause
   • (b) of sub- section
2. (1) shall be produced before the court within twentyfour hours of such seizure and the court shall thereupon pass such orders as it may think fit for the disposal of the vehicle.
3. (3) Where any bond is executed under clause
   • (b) of sub-section (1) for the production of any motor vehicle before the court, the provisions of section 514 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to such bond.