Police Act 2008 - Kerala Police

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of service providers in any area, must, before they start providing any service to the
public at large, must obtain police verification certificates from the District Police Chief
or such other Police Authority as may be prescribed with regard to themselves and
their employees and furnish such reasonable information to the police about their
activities and antecedents as may be reasonably necessary in the circumstances of
each Service and further direct that such verification be repeated with such periodicity
as may be specified.
Provided that the information so obtained from a service provider by the police
other than the information which is necessary to be used for any public purpose for
the purpose of preventing or investigating a crime shall be kept confidential and shall
not be divulged to any person or to the public.
62. Service Providers to Report Stolen, Missing or Wanted Property:
1. Any police officer may deliver to any merchant, service provider, pawn-broker,
dealer, or repairer, a list of any property believed to have been stolen or reported to
be missing or required to be located by reason of any crime, and thereupon it shall be
the duty of such person, upon any article answering the description of any of the
property set forth in any such list being brought to his notice, to inquire the name and
address of the person offering such article, to seize and detain the article, and
forthwith to communicate the circumstances to nearest Police Station.
2. Such merchant, service provider, pawn-broker, dealer, or repairer as aforesaid
may also detain any person offering such article as aforesaid pending the arrival of
the police.
63. Storage and Disposal of Articles seized by Police:
1. In every Police Station adequate space shall be provided for the storage of
seized articles and if the given space in the Police Station is insufficient, the State
Government may notify an enclosed area other than the Police Station for keeping
articles seized by the police during investigation or as unclaimed property etc.
2. Dangerous articles such as explosives or harmful chemicals may be destroyed
after a sample is collected for forensic analysis, in the presence of competent experts
and under advance intimation to courts.