Section 28
Entering drinking shops, &c. without a warrant.
The Madras District Police Act, 1859
About this Act
An Act for the better regulation of the Police within the Territories subject to the Presidency of Fort St. George.
It shall be lawful for any Police
Officer without a warrant to enter and inspect all drinking shops gaming houses and other resorts of loose
and disorderly characters all premises of persons suspected of receiving stolen property any locality
vessel boat or conveyance in any part of which places he shall have just cause to believe that crime has
been or is about to be committed or which he reasonably suspects to contain stolen property; and then and
there to take all necessary measures for the effectual prevention and detection of crime and to take charge
of all property reasonably suspected to have been stolen and of all articles or things which may serve as
evidence of the crime supposed to have been committed.