Search list required under section 103(2) Cr.P.C should be prepared in the following form of Police Rules, 1934:
Search list required under section 103(2) Cr.P.C should be prepared in the following form of Police Rules, 1934:
(A) 25.23(1)(a)
(B) 25.23(1)(b)
(C) 25.23(1)(c)
(D) 25.23(1)(d)
Rule 25.23 of the Police Rules 1934 provides the procedures and forms that need to be adopted by searches that should be carried out by the investigators. Under this sub-rule, the forms of the rule are broken down as follows as provided by Volume III of the Police Rules:
25.23(1)(c): This is the particular form that is to be used in Search List (also called a Mashirnama or recovery memo) mandated by Section 103(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.P.C.).
25.23(1)(a): This is applied to the Notice of Search also known as the initial notice before a search is conducted.
25.23(1) (b): This is the Summons to persons to witness search as the search is officially called to invite to the locality respectable residents to appear as witnesses.
25.23(1)(d): This is not the customary title to the search list in itself; the order is taken out of notice to summons up to the list of the items seized.