Section 32, The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024

(1) Where a search warrant has been executed, the personwho executed it shall return the warrant, together with everything seized under it to the High Court, a Judge, a Magistrate or Justices of the Peace sitting in Court. (2) Upon receipt of the search warrant and of all the things seized under it the High Court, a Judge, Magistrate or Justices of the Peace sitting in Court may make an order as to the immediate custody of the things seized and, at any time thereafter, may make an order as to their disposal as may seem proper. (3) Subject to subsection (1), the Court shall, if of the opinion that property or any portion thereof can be returned to the person identified as the owner, without prejudice to the interests of justice, order that the property or any portion of the property be returned to the owner or to any other person as the Court may direct. (4) Where a property has been taken from a person under this section, and the person is not charged before any Court but is released on the ground that there is no sufficient reason to believe that he has committed any offence, any property so taken from him shall be restored to him.