A Brief Report On Search Warrants

Harshit Jain, Christ Academy Institute of Law

INTRODUCTION

We nowadays often read or hear that a raid had taken place by police officer or income tax department or summons are made or warrants are issued of reason from not paying to tax to hit and run cases but what is warrants and how is it regulated. The way police officers are required to search for a person or thing and on what grounds/basis is like not that common for a common man to know, it’s just that if they come people tend to get scared and allow the officers and later might get fooled with thieves. So the paper is just a brief of what the laws are and how it should be regulated in India, and the author has linked it with the constitution because privacy is a fundamental right and is supposed to upheld in all circumstances unless it causes a harm too society as a whole.