Powers of arrest, search and seizure.

(1) If an offence of touting or malpractice takes places in the presence of a police officer, not below the rank of an Assistant Sub Inspector of Police, such police officer may arrest the person and record his observation about such conduct of the individual that constitutes the offence of touting. (2) Any Police officer having reason to suspect a person of indulging in the act of touting or malpractice against a tourist or a traveller may search such person and may require an account in relation to any articles found in his possession and may seize such articles if found suspicious and of such nature which could be used for commission of touting or malpractice against tourists or travellers. (3) A Police Officer not below the rank of an Assistant Sub Inspector of Police may enter a public or private establishment, which he has reason to believe, was or is being used as place for commission of touting or malpractice against tourists or travellers and inspect the same, subject to the permission accorded to him for such inspection by a superior officer not below the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police/Deputy Supreintendent of Police/Sub-Divisional Police Officer.