Section 24
Seizure of accounts or records.
The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010
About this Act
An Act to consolidate the law to regulate the acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution or foreign hospitality by certain individuals or associations or companies and to prohibit acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution or foreign hospitality for any activities detrimental to the national interest and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
If, after inspection of an account or record referred to in
section 23, the inspecting officer has any reasonable cause to believe that any provision of this Act or of
any other law relating to foreign exchange has been, or is being, contravened, he may seize such account
or record and produce the same before the court, authority or tribunal in which any proceeding is brought
for such contravention:
Provided that the authorised officer shall return such account or record to the person from whom it was seized if no proceeding is brought within six months from the date of such seizure for the contravention disclosed by such account or record.
Provided that the authorised officer shall return such account or record to the person from whom it was seized if no proceeding is brought within six months from the date of such seizure for the contravention disclosed by such account or record.