Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1956
6.Power to seize and destroy harmful
publications. -
(1)Any police officer or any other office
empowered in this behalf by the State Government may seize any harmful
publication.
(2)Any Magistrate of the first class may, by
warrant, authorize any police officer not below the rank of sub-Inspector to
enter and search any place where any stock of harmful publications may be or
may be reasonably suspected to be, and such police office may seize any
publication found in such place if in his opinion it is a harmful publication,
(3)Any publication seized under sub-section
(1) shall be produced, as soon as may be, before a Magistrate of the first
class, and any publication seized under sub-section (2) shall be produced as
soon as may be, before the Court which issued the warrant.
(4)If in the opinion of the Magistrate or
Court such publication is a harmful publication, the Magistrate or Court may
cause it to be destroyed, but if, in the opinion of the Magistrate or Court,
such publication is not a harmful publication, the Magistrate or Court shall
dispose of it in the manner provided in Sections 523, 524 and 525 of the 1[Code
of Criminal Procedure, 1898].
1.See now Code of criminal procedure, 1973 (2
of 1974).