Vexatious entry, search, arrest, etc., by Police Officer.

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) offers any unnecessary personal violence to any person in his custody ; or
5. (e) holds out any threat or promise not warranted by law, shall for every such offence, on conviction, 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.