(1) An officer in charge of a police station or a police officer not being below the
rank of sub-inspector making an investigation may require an officer in charge of another
police station, whether in the same or a different district, to cause a search to be made in any
place, in any case in which the former officer might cause such search to be made, within the
limits of his own station.
(2) Such officer, on being so required, shall proceed according to the provisions of
section 185, and shall forward the thing found, if any, to the officer at whose request the
search was made.
(3) Whenever there is reason to believe that the delay occasioned by requiring an
officer in charge of another police station to cause a search to be made under
sub-section (1) might result in evidence of the commission of an offence being concealed or
destroyed, it shall be lawful for an officer in charge of a police station or a police officer
making any investigation under this Chapter to search, or cause to be searched, any place
in the limits of another police station in accordance with the provisions of section 185, as if
such place were within the limits of his own police station.
(4) Any officer conducting a search under sub-section (3) shall forthwith send notice
of the search to the officer in charge of the police station within the limits of which such
place is situate, and shall also send with such notice a copy of the list (if any) prepared
under section 103, and shall also send to the nearest Magistrate empowered to take
cognizance of the offence, copies of the records referred to in sub-sections (1) and (3) of
section 185.
(5) The owner or occupier of the place searched shall, on application, be furnished
free of cost with a copy of any record sent to the Magistrate under sub-section (4).
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