The following provision of the Criminal Procedure Codes, 1973 are relevant to media.
Section 93. When search warrant may be issued
(1)
(a) Where any Court has reason to believe that a person to
whom a summons or order under Section 91 or a requisition under subsection (1) of Section 92 has been, or might be, addressed, will not or would not produce the document or thing as required by such summons or requisition, or
(b) where such document or thing is not known to the Court to be in the possession of any person, or
(c) where the Court considers that the purposes of any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code will be
served by a general search or inspection, it may issue a search-warrant; and the person to whom such warrant is
directed, may search or inspect in accordance therewith and the provisions hereinafter contained.
(2) The Court may, if it thinks fit, specify in the warrant the particular place or part thereof to which only the
search or inspection shall extend; and the person charged with the execution of such warrant shall, then search or inspect only the place or part so specified.
(3) Nothing contained in this section shall authorize any Magistrate other than a District Magistrate or Chief
Judicial Magistrate to grant a warrant to search for a document, parcel or other thing in the custody of the postal or telegraph authority.
