Section 39: To retain safely

1) If the government attorney makes decision not to institute a case pursuant to sub-section (3) of Section 31, he or she shall, as promptly as possible, return the exhibit, evidence and thing including the casefile to the concerned police office.

2) The concerned police office shall safely retain the case file, exhibit, evidence and thing received pursuant to sub-section (1) until the statute of limitation for instituting the case on such offence expires.

3) If the exhibit, evidence or thing referred to in sub section (1) is a property of anyone, the police office shall return such property to its owner, upon having a deed executed by him or her with a bond to submit such property to the investigating authority or court as and when so required.