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(1) When an investigation, inquiry or
trial in any criminal case is concluded, the Court or the Magistrate may make such order as it thinks fit for
the disposal, by destruction, confiscation or delivery to any person claiming to be entitled to possession
thereof or otherwise, of any property or document produced before it or in its custody, or regarding which
any offence appears to have been committed, or which has been used for the commission of any offence.(2) An order may be made under sub-section(1)for the delivery of any property to any person claiming
to be entitled to the possession thereof, without any condition or on condition that he executes a bond, with
or without securities, to the satisfaction of the Court or the Magistrate, engaging to restore such property to
the Court if the order made under sub-section(1)is modified or set aside on appeal or revision.(3) A Court of Session may, instead of itself making an order under sub-section(1), direct the property
to be delivered to the Chief Judicial Magistrate, who shall thereupon deal with it in the manner provided in
sections 503, 504 and 505.(4) Except where the property is livestock or is subject to speedy and natural decay, or where a bond
has been executed in pursuance of sub-section(2),an order made under sub-section(1)shall not be carried
out for two months, or when an appeal is presented, until such appeal has been disposed of.(5) In this section, the term “property” includes, in the case of property regarding which an offence
appears to have been committed, not only such property as has been originally in the possession or under
the control of any party, but also any property into or for which the same may have been converted or
exchanged, and anything acquired by such conversion or exchange, whether immediately or otherwise.
