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CHAPTER IX Offences and Penalties

Section 61: Penalty for Excise Officer making vexatious search etc

The Rajasthan Excise Act, 1950

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Rajasthan, with amendments up to Rajasthan Act No. 14 of 2014; it also shows section 28-A (surcharge for mitigating natural or manmade calamities), added in 2020.

Section 25 is not printed in this copy; section 24 is followed by section 26.

If any Excise Officer—

(a) without reasonable grounds of suspicion enters, inspects or searches or causes to be entered, inspected or searched any place; or

(b) vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes any property of any person on the pretence of seizing or searching for any article liable to confiscation under this Act; or

(c) vexatiously and unnecessarily detains, searches or arrests any person; he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with both.

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