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Section 117

Investigations, Arrests, Searches, Etc., How to Be Made.

The Maharashtra Prohibition Act
Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, all investigations, arrest, detentions in custody and searches shall be made in accordance with provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 18981(V of 1898):

Provided that 2* * * * no search shall be deemed to be illegal by reason only of the fact that witnesses for the search were not inhabitants of the locality in which the place searched is situated.


1 See now the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).

2 The portion beginning with the words "in any local area" and ending with the words "State Government" was deleted by Bom. 26 of 1952, s. 46.