(2)The Chief Executive Officer may also take steps to recover any money due by such person in the same manner and subject to the same provisions as in the relevant Land Revenue Act for the recovery of the arrear of land revenue from defaulters, and for the purpose of recovering the accounts, records or other property, pertaining to the Gaon Panchayat or Anchalik Panchayat or Zilla Parishad may issue a search warrant and 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 (Central Act-2 of 1974).