CrPC 153 — Inspection of weights and measures

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

(1) Any  officer  in  charge  of  a  police  station  may,  without  a
warrant, enter any place within the limits of such station for the purpose of inspecting or searching for any weights
or  measures or instruments for  weighing, used or kept therein,  whenever  he has reason to believe  that there are  in such place any weights, measures or instruments for weighing which are false.
(2) If he  finds in  such place any  weights,  measures or instruments for  weighing  which are  false,  he  may seize the same, and shall forthwith give information of such seizure to a Magistrate having jurisdiction.

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