120. Search by police off~cer

Whenever an officer in charge of a police station or a police oficer making an investigation has reasonable grounds for believing that any evidence or thing necessary for the purposes of an investigation into any offence which he is authorised to investigate may be found in any place and that the evidence or thing cannot in his opinion be otherwise obtained without undue delay, the officer may search or cause search to be made for such evidence or thing in any place.

The officer shall, if practicable, conduct the search in person.

If he is unable to conduct the search in person and there is no other person competent to make the search present at the time, he may require any officer subordinate to him to make the search, and he shall deliver to the subordinate oficer an order in writing specifying the thing for which search is to be made and the place to be searched, and the subordinate oficer may thereupon search for such thing in such place.

The provisions of this Code as to search warrants shall, so far as may be, apply to a search made under this section.