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

Section 143-B was inserted by Bom 35 of 1959, Sec. 31.

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 wit h both.