(1) (a) Where any Court has reason to believe that a person to whom a summons order under section 91 or a requisition under sub-section (1) of section 92 has been, or might be, addressed, will not or would not produce the document or thing as required by such summons or requisition, or
(b) where such document or thing is not known to the Court to be in the possession of any person, or
(c) where the Court considers that the purposes of any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code will be served by a general search or inspection, it may issue a search-warrant; and the person to whom such warrant is directed, may search or inspect in accordance therewith and the provisions hereinafter contained.
(2) The Court may, if it thinks fit, specify in the warrant the particular place or part thereof to which only the search or inspection shall extend; and the person charged with the execution of such warrant shall then search or inspect only the place or part so specified.
(3) Nothing contained in this section shall authorise any Magistrate other than a District Magistrate or Chief Judicial Magistrate to grant a warrant to search for a document, parcel or other thing in the custody of the postal or telegraph authority.
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