Section 4 — Chief inspector and inspectors.

4. Chief inspector and inspectors.—(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official 

Gazette, appoint for the State a duly qualified person to be the chief inspector and as many duly qualified 

persons to be inspectors subordinate to the chief inspector as it thinks fit. 

(2) The chief inspector may declare the local limits within which inspectors shall exercise their 

powers under this Act, and may himself exercise the powers of an inspector within such local limits as 

may be assigned to him by the State Government. 

(3) The chief inspector and all inspectors shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of 

section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860). 

  



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