Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
32. Excise-officer to report arrest, &c. and to take person arrested to Magistrate.
33. Procedure
1881.] Excise. 369
SECTIONS.
33. Procedure after arrest or seizure.
34. Police to aid Excise-officers.
CHAPTER VII.
PENALTIES.
35. For illegally manufacturing spirit or liquor.
32. Whenever an Excise-officer arrests any person, or seizes any article liable to confiscation under this Act,
or enters any place for the purpose of searching for any such article,
he shall, within twenty-four hours thereafter, make a full report of all the particulars of such arrest, seizure or search, to his official superior, and, unless acting under the warrant of the Collector, shall take the person arrested, or the article seized, with all convenient despatch to the Magistrate for trial or adjudication.
Source: India Code