(1) The police shall seize weapons, articles and property in connection with criminal cases and take charge of property which may be unclaimed:- (a) under the implied authority of Section 170, Code of Criminal Procedure ; (b) in the course of searches made in police investigations under Sections 51, 165 and 166, Code of Criminal Procedure ; (c) under Section 153, Code of Criminal Procedure, as regards weights, measures, or instruments for weighing that are false; (d) under Section 550, Code of Criminal Procedure, as regards property alleged or suspected to have been stolen : provided that if the property consists of an animal or animals belonging to Government or to persons of good status it may be made over to them or to a commissioned or a gazetted officer, under the orders of a Magistrate, who is empowered to make such an order under Section 523, Criminal Procedure Code. (e) under Section 550, Code of Criminal Procedure, as regards property found under circumstances which create suspicion of the commission of an offence; when an offence in respect of an animal is committed and such animal is not stolen property such animal shall be seized and sent with the case to the magistrate having jurisdiction; (f) under Section 25 of the Police Act, as regards unclaimed property; Ordinarily the police shall not take possession of movable property as unclaimed when it is in the possession of an innocent finder; but in cities and in cantonments the police may, in compliance with an order issued under Section 26 or 27 of the Police Act, take possession and dispose of unclaimed property made over to them by innocent finders. Such property shall be entered in the store-room register, unless a special register is prescribed for the purpose by the District Magistrate. (g) under the provisions of Local and Special Laws. (2) Each weapon, or article of property not being cattle, seized under the above rule, shall be marked or labelled with the name of the person from whom, or the place where, it was seized, and a reference to the case diary or other report submitted from the police station. If articles are made up into a parcel, the parcel shall be secured with sealing wax bearing the seal impression of the responsible officer, and shall be similarly marked or labelled. Such articles or parcels shall be placed in safe custody, pending disposal as provided by law or rule. Cattle shall be placed in the pound and shall be carefully described in the case diary or other report regarding their seizure from the police station. All expenses for feeding and watering cattle kept in the pound in connection with cases shall invariably be recovered from the District Magistrate and not from the complainant. (3) The police shall send to headquarters or to magisterial outposts - (a) all weapons, articles and property connected with cases sent for trial; (b) suspicious, unclaimed and other property, when ordered to do so by a competent magistrate. (4) Motor vehicles detained or seized by the police in connection with cases or accidents shall be produced before a magistrate after rapid investigation or by means of incomplete challan. The evidence relating to the identity or condition of the vehicle should be led and disposed of at an early date, and the magistrate should then be invited to exercise the discretion vested in him by section 516-A, Code of Criminal Procedure, to order that the vehicle be made cover to the owner pending conclusion of the case or security to be produced whenever demanded by the Court.