129. B Documents of reports of registered medical practitioner, etc. as evidence. नोंदविलेला वैद्यक व्यवसायी, इत्यादी यांनी दिलेले दस्तऐवज किंवा प्रतिवृत्ते, वगैरे पुरावा असणे.

129. B Documents of reports of registered medical practitioner, etc. as evidence. नोंदविलेला वैद्यक व्यवसायी, इत्यादी यांनी दिलेले दस्तऐवज किंवा प्रतिवृत्ते, वगैरे पुरावा असणे.

1. The ¹State¹ Government may empower any Prohibition Officer to investigate offences under this Act.

2. An officer empowered under sub-section (1) shall in the conduct of such investigation exercise the powers conferred by the Code of Criminal Procedure, ³1898³ upon an officer in charge of a Police Station for the investigation of cognizable offences.

3. Any Prohibition Officer to whom such officer is subordinate may during the course of the investigation, take over the investigation himself or direct any other Prohibition Officer duly empowered to conduct the same. The Officer in conducting the investigation shall have the same powers under sub-sections (1) and (2) as if he were the Prohibition Officer appointed for the area or for the purpose of investigating the said offence.

4. If the Prohibition Officer conducting the investigation is of opinion that there is not sufficient evidence or reasonable ground of suspicion to justify the forwarding of the accused to a Magistrate, or that the person arrested may be discharged with a warning such officer shall release him on his executing a bond with or without sureties, to appear, if and when so required, before a Magistrate empowered to take cognizance of the offence and shall make a full report of the case to his official superior and be guided by the order which he shall receive on such report.

5. The powers of any officer empowered under this section shall be subject to such other modifications or restrictions as the ¹State¹ Government may deem fit.

129A. Power to persons to submit to examination

1. Where in the investigation of any offence under this Act, any Prohibition Officer, duly empowered in this behalf by the State Government or any Police Officer has reasonable ground for believing that a person has consumed an intoxicant and that for the purpose of establishing that he has consumed an intoxicant or for the procuring of evidence thereof it is necessary that his body be medically examined, or that his blood be collected for being tested for determining the percentage of alcohol therein, such Prohibition Officer or Police Officer may produce such person before a registered medical practitioner (authorised by general or special order by the State Government in this behalf) for the purpose of such medical examination or collection of blood, and request such registered medical practitioner to furnish a certificate on his finding whether such person has consumed any intoxicant and to forward the blood collected by him for test to the Chemical Examiner or Assistant Chemical Examiner to Government, or to such other Officer as the State Government may appoint in this behalf.

2. The registered medical practitioner before whom such person has been produced shall examine such person and collect and forward in the manner prescribed the blood of such person, and furnish to the Officer by whom such person has been produced, a certificate in the prescribed form containing the result of his examination. The Chemical Examiner or Assistant Chemical Examiner to Government, or other officer appointed under sub-section (1) shall certify the result of the test of the blood, forwarded to him, stating therein in the prescribed form, the percentage of alcohol and such other particulars as may be necessary or relevant.