Vexatious entry, search, arrest, etc., by police officers

Vexatious entry, search, arrest, etc., by police officers.- Any police officer who-

1. (a) without lawful authority or reasonable cause, enters or searches or causes to be entered or searched any building, vessel, tent or place ;
2. (b) vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes the property of any person ;
3. (c) vexatiously and unnecessarily detains, searches or arrests any person ;
4. (d) vexatiously and unnecessarily delays forwarding any person arrested to a Magistrate or to any other authority to whom he is legally bound to forward such person ;
5. (e) offers any unnecessary personal violence to any person in his custody ;
6. (f) holds out any threat or promise not warranted by law to an accused person;
7. (g) maliciously and without probable cause prefers any false vexatious or frivolous, charge or information against any individual ; or
8. (h) knowingly and wilfully and with evil intent exceeds his powers shall on conviction for every such offence be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.