Police Act 2008 - Kerala Police

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4. Where any property has been taken charge of under sub-section (1) the District
Police Chief shall issue a proclamation specifying the details of the property and
requiring that any person who may have a claim thereto may appear before an officer
specified in the proclamation within 30 days from the date of such proclamation and
establish his claim.
5. The District Police Chief on being satisfied of the title of any claimant to the
possession or administration of the property specified in the proclamation order the
same to be delivered to him, after realisation of the expenses incurred in the seizure
and detention thereof.
6. The District Police Chief may, at his discretion, before making any order under
sub-section (5), take such security as he may think proper from the person to whom
the said property is to be delivered and nothing herein before contained shall affect
the right of any person to recover the whole or any part of the same from the person
to whom it may have been delivered pursuant to such order.
7. If no person establishes his claim to such property within the period specified in
the proclamation, the property, or such part thereof as has not already been sold
under sub-section (3) shall be, used for any official purpose in lieu of a similar article
which was required to be purchased in the normal course or such property maybe sold
in auction under the orders of the District Police Chief, and the proceeds thereof shall
be credited to the Criminal Justice Miscellaneous Expenses Fund.
8. With due regard to the size and volume of the unclaimed property and the
volume of space required to keep it safe and in good condition, the State Police Chief
may prescribe from time to time the rates of daily charges to be levied for safekeeping
and the unclaimed article or the seized article, not being required for production in a
court of law, shall be sold in public auction on the day when the cost of safekeeping
becomes half the assessed value of the unclaimed article.
Provided that no such charges shall be levied from the original owner of the
property for the first seven days for which the article was kept in custody and for any
period after the date of auction of the property and its transfer to the bidder or the
date of its being put to governmental use.
9. When an unclaimed article had been sold in auction and it is later found that the
actual owner is entitled to the full value of the said article by reason of the fact that he