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Branch II
Disposal of Property and Things
Safeguards of disposal of property
99.(1) Where during inquiry, or trial, there has been presented any
property with respect to which the offence is believed to have
been committed, the Prosecution Attorney, or the Magistrate,
shall take the necessary measures to classify such property .
(2) Harmful materials shall forthwith be destroyed, after taking
samples thereof, and specifying the quantities, weights,
descriptions and harms thereof, by the competent technical
bodies.
(3) Property liable to natural decay, or to termination of validity,
shall be sold forthwith; likewise animals, where keeping and care,
of the same, is not possible , or are feared to perish.
(4) Where the Prosecution Attorney, or the Magistrate deems, upon
the request of the competent public authority, that it is fit to sell
any attached property, he may order sale of the same, and keep
the value thereof.
(5) Monetary property shall be kept in the treasury of the State, in
accordance with the financial regulations.
(6) Where the absconding person, whose
property has been
attached , under section 97, does not appear, his attached
property may be sold, by the expiry of three months, of the date
of attachment.
(7) Where the absconding person, whose property has been
attached, under section 97, appears, within one year, of the date
of attachment, and his property is still under attachment, and
delivers justification of his absence, or ignorance of the
proclamation, published in his respect, the property , or the price
of such, as has bee sold thereof, shall be delivered thereto, after
deduction of expenses .
(8) The attached property, or the price thereof, shall be a trust, with
the competent authority, which ordered attachment thereof, and
shall be responsible for keeping the same, in the approppriate
manner, and the same shall not be disposed of, before the lapse
of the criminal suit; and in this case, the decision of lapse of the
criminal suit shall include the manner of disposal of the attached
property.
Procedure upon seizure of suspicious
or stolen property
100.(1) Any Policeman, who seizes any stolen property, or property
found in circumstances, which lead to suspecion of the
commission of an offence, shall forthwith inform the Prosecution
Attorney of the same.
(2) Where the person , who has right to the said property is
unknown, such property may be attached, and the Prosecution
Attorney thereupon, shall issue a sufficient proclamation, in the
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