Power to enter places of public resort.

(1) Every Police officer may, subject to the rules and orders made by the State Government or by a person lawfully authorized, enter for any of the purposes referred to in Sec. 64 without a warrant, and inspect any place of public resort which he has reason to believe is used as drinking shop, or a shop for the sale of intoxicating drugs or a place of resort of loose and disorderly characters.

(2) Power to search suspected persons in a street. When in a street or a place of public resort a person has possession or apparent possession of any article which a Police officer in good faith suspects to be stolen property, such Police officer may search for and examine the same and may require an account thereof, and should the account given by the possessor be manifestly false or suspicious, may detain such article and report the facts to a Magistrate who shall thereon proceed according to Secs. 523 and 525 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898), or other law in force. (a) without lawful authority or reasonable cause enters or searches or causes to be entered or searched, any building, vessel, tent or place; (b) vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes the property of any person; (c) vexatiously and unnecessarily detains, searches or arrests any person; (d) offers any unnecessary personal violence to any person in his custody; or (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.