Establishment of check posts or barriers and inspection of goods in transit

(1) With a view to preventing or checking evasion of tax under this Act, the State Government may, by notification, direct the establishment of a check post or the erection of a barrier or both on such road or roads as may be notified. (2) At every check post or barrier or at any other place when so required by an officer-in-charge of the check post or barrier or any other officer, not below the rank of an Excise and Taxation Inspector, the person-in-charge or the driver of the motor vehicle, as the case may be, shall stop or cause to be stopped the motor vehicle, and keep it stationary as long as may reasonably be necessary, and allow the aforesaid officer to examine the contents in the motor vehicle by breaking open the package or packages, if necessary, and inspect all records relating to the goods transported which are in the possession of such person-in-charge or driver, who shall also furnish such other information as may be required by the aforesaid officer, and if considered necessary, such officer may also search the goods and the motor vehicle. (3) The person-in-charge or the driver of the motor vehicle, as the case may be, shall keep with him the receipt in the prescribed form showing the tax and/or additional goods tax paid by him under section 3, 3-B and 4-A in respect of the goods being transported by him and produce on demand such receipt before an officer-in-charge of a check post or barrier or any other officer, not below the rank of an Excise and Taxation Inspector, checking such motor vehicle at any other place. (4) If the person-in-charge or the driver of motor vehicle, as the case may be, fails to produce the receipt as required under sub-section (3), the officer-in-charge of the check post or barrier or any other officer referred to in sub-section (3), as the case may be, shall recover the tax and/or the additional goods-tax, as the case may be, at the check post or barrier or at the place of inspection and issue him the receipt in the prescribed form. (5) If the transport of the goods on which the tax and/or additional goods tax is payable under this Act, is being affected through the check post or the barrier falling first in the course of transit within the State, the person-in-charge or the driver of motor vehicle may pay the tax at such check post or the barrier and obtain a receipt, in the prescribed form, against such payment.