law: Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 1984 
  49. Securing
  
  possession of records, etc.- 
  1.     
  
    If
  
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  a.      the records
  
  (including registers and books of accounts) of a multi-State cooperative
  
  society are likely to be tampered with or destroyed or the funds or other
  
  property of such society are likely to be misappropriated or misapplied; or
  b.     the board of a
  
  multi-State cooperative society is reconstituted at a general meeting of the
  
  society; or
  c.      the board of a
  
  multi-State cooperative society is removed by the Central Registrar under
  
  sub-section (1) of section 48; or
  d.     a multi - State
  
  cooperative society is ordered to be wound up under section 77 and the outgoing
  
  members of the board refuse to hand over charge of the records and property of
  
  the society to those having, or entitled to receive such charge, the Central
  
  Registrar may apply to the magistrate within whose jurisdiction the multi-State
  
  cooperative society functions for securing the records and property of the
  
  society.
  1.     
  
  
  2.     
  
    On
  
  receipt of an application under sub-section (1), the magistrate may, by a
  
  warrant authorise any police officer not below the rank of a sub-inspector to
  
  enter and search any place where such records and property are kept or are
  
  believed to be kept and to seize such records and property; and the records and
  
  property so seized shall be handed over to the new board or administrator of
  
  the multi-State cooperative society or the liquidator, as the case may be.
  3.     
  
    Every
  
  such search and seizure shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the
  
  Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.