Section 504

When the Sale Officer may have reason to believe that the produce of the mortgaged land is lodged within a dwelling house the outer door of which may be shut or within any apartment appropriated for the zanana which by custom or usage of the country is considered private the Sale Officer shall represent the fact to the Officer Incharge of the nearest police station. On such representation the Officer Incharge of the nearest police station shall send a police officer to the spot in whose presence the Sale Officer may force open the outer door of such dwelling house: Provided that where it is necessary for the Sales Officer to enter into the apartments of women for the purpose of distraining the produce of the mortgaged land, which is believed to be deposited therein he shall enter into such apartments only in the presence of the police officer and at least one female witness of the locality after giving due notice for retirement or removal of women and if the property sought for is found it shall be immediately removed by the Sale Officer from such apartment after which the apartments shall be left free to the women occupants.