20. Search of place entered by persons sought to be arrested

If any person acting under a warrant of arrest or any police officer or District Officer having authority to arrest has reason to believe that a any person to be arrested has entered into or is within any place, the person residing in or in charge of such place shall, on demand of such person acting

If ingress to such place cannot be obtained under subsection (I), it shall be lawful in any case for a person acting under a warrant, and in any case in which a warrant may be issued but cannot be obtained without affording the person to be arrested an opportunity to escape, for a police officer or District Oficer -

If any place to be searched is an apartment in the actual occupancy of a woman (not being the person to be arrested) who, according to custom, does not appear in public, such person or police officer shall before entering the apartment, give notice to the woman that she is at liberty to withdraw, and shall afford her every reasonable facility for withdrawing, and may then break open the apartment and enter it.