(1) If any document, parcel or thing in the custody of a postal or telegraph authority is, in the opinion of the District Magistrate, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court of Session or High Court wanted for the purpose of any investigation, inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code, such Magistrate or Court may require the postal or telegraph authority, as the case may be, to deliver the document, parcel or thing to such person as the Magistrate or Court directs.
(2) If any such document, parcel or thing is, in the opinion of any other Magistrate, whether Executive or Judicial, or of any Commissioner of Police or District Superintendent of Police, wanted for any such purpose, he may require the postal or telegraph authority, as the case may be, to cause search to be made for and to detain such document, parcel or thing pending the order of a District Magistrate, Chief Judicial Magistrate or Court under sub-section (1).
Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)
91 CrPC Summons to produce document or other thing
92 CrPC Procedure as to letters and telegrams
93 CrPC When search-warrant may be issued
94 CrPC Search of place suspected to contain stolen property, forged documents, etc
95 CrPC Power to declare certain publications forfeited and to issue search-warrants for the same
96 CrPC Application to High Court to set aside declaration of forfeiture
97 CrPC Search for persons wrongfully confined
98 CrPC Power to compel restoration of abducted females