(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.
Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)
151 CrPC Information of design to commit cognizable offences
152 CrPC Prevention of injury to public property
153 CrPC Inspection of weights and measures
154 CrPC Information in cognizable cases
155 CrPC Information as to non-cognizable cases and investigation of such cases
156 CrPC Police officer's power to investigate cognizable case
157 CrPC Procedure for investigation
159 CrPC Power to hold investigation or preliminary inquiry
160 CrPC Police officers power to require attendance of witnesses