law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  52.Power to seize offensive weapons.-
  The officer or other person making any arrest
  
  under this Code may take from the person arrested any offensive weapons which
  
  he has about his person, and shall deliver all weapons so taken to the Court or
  
  officer before which or whom the officer or person making the arrest is
  
  required by this Code to produce the person arrested.