Section 127:
Order of disposal of property regarding which offences is committed.
(1) After the
conclusion of a trial before any Assam Rifles Court, the Court or the officer confirming the finding or
sentence of such Assam Rifles Court, or any authority superior to such officer, or, in the case of Summary
Assam Rifles Court whose finding or sentence does not require confirmation, an officer not below the
rank of Deputy Inspector-General within whose command the trial was held, may make such order as it or
he thinks fit for the disposal by destruction, confiscation, delivery to any person claiming to be entitled to
possession thereof, or otherwise, of any property or document produced before the Court or in its custody,
or regarding which any offence appears to have been committed or which has been committed or which
has been used for the commission of any offence.
(2) Where any order has been made under sub-section (1) in respect of property regarding which an
offence appears to have been committed, a copy of such order signed and certified by the authority
making the same may, whether the trial was held within India or not, be sent to a Magistrate within whose
jurisdiction such property for the time being is situated, and such Magistrate shall thereupon cause the
order to be carried into effect as if it were an order passed by him under the provisions of the Code of
Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).
(3) In this section, the term "property" includes, in the case of property regarding which an offence
appears to have been committed, not only such property as has been originally in the possession or under
the control of any person, but also any property into or for which the same may have been converted or
exchanged, and anything acquired by such conversion or exchange whether immediately or otherwise.