Section 6. Power to seize copies of advertisements

6. Any officer authorized by the 1State Government in this behalf, may seize copies of any newspaper, periodicals, leaflet, pamphlet, handbill, label, book or picture or any notice board or other form of advertisement wherever found and obliterate any written or printed matter or pictorial representation of signs in any public place if it appears to him that an advertisement contained therein contravenes the provisions of this Act or the Rules made thereunder or any condition of the licence granted under this Act, and a Magistrate trying the contravention may without prejudice to any sentence which he may pass, direct that the copies or other articles seized in respect of which he is satisfied that such contravention has occurred shall be forfeited to the 1[State Government].