Section 179(3)(b) in The Maharashtra Village Panchayats Act, 1959
(b)for recovering any such record to issue a search warrants and to exercise all such powers with respect thereto as may lawfully be exercised by a Magistrate under the provisions of Chapter VII of the [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1989.] [See now the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).]