law: Dramatic Performances Act, 1876
  8. Power to grant warrant to Police to enter
  
  and arrest and seize
  If any Magistrate has reason to believe that
  
  any house, room or place is used, or is about to be used, for any performance
  
  prohibited under this Act, he may, by his warrant, authorize any officer of
  
  Police to enter with such assistance as may be requisite, by night or by day,
  
  and by force, if necessary, any such house, room or place, and to take into
  
  custody all persons whom he finds therein, and to seize all scenery, dresses
  
  and or to articles found therein and reasonably suspected to have been used, to
  
  be intended to be used, for the purpose of such performance.