Lawgist101Power to search suspected persons in certain other cases
(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 100, if an officer of customs empowered in this behalf by general or special order of the 1[Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs], has reason to believe that any person has secreted about his person any goods of the description specified in sub-section (2) which are liable to confiscation, or documents relating thereto, he may search that person.
(2) The goods referred to in sub-section (1) are the following:--
(a) gold;
(b) diamonds;
(c) manufactures of gold or diamonds;
(d) watches;
(e) any other class of goods which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify.
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1. Subs. by Act 25 of 2014, s. 78, for "Commissioner of Customs" (w.e.f. 6-8-2014).
- 100 Power to search suspected persons entering or leaving India, etc
- 101 Power to search suspected persons in certain other cases
- 102 Persons to be searched may require to be taken before gazetted officer of customs or magistrate
- 103 Power to screen or X-ray bodies of suspected persons for detecting secreted goods
- 104 Power to arrest
- 105 Power to search premises
- 106 Power to stop and search conveyances
- 106A Power to inspect
- 107 Power to examine persons
- 108 Power to summon persons to give evidence and produce documents
- 108A Obligation to furnish informatio
- 108B Penalty for failure to furnish information return
- 109 Power to require production of order permitting clearance of goods imported by land
- 109A Power to undertake controlled delivery
- 110 Seizure of goods, documents and things
- 110A Provisional release of goods, documents and things seized pending adjudication
