Punishment for making vexation search, seizure, detention or arrest

Any Excise Officer or other person, who with vexatious intention and without reasonable ground for suspicion,

1. (a) enters or searches or causes to be entered or searched any closed place under the guise of exercising any power conferred by this Regulation; or
2. (b) seizes the movable property of any person on the pretext of seizing or searching for any article liable to confiscation under this Regulation; or
3. (c) searches, detains or arrests any person; or
4. (d) exceeds his lawful powers under this Regulation, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees.