Section 124: Vexatious entry, search, arrest, etc., by police officer.

The Delhi Police Act, 1978Central Act · Act 34 of 1978

Any police officer who

(a) without lawful authority or reasonable cause enters or searches, or causes to be entered or searched, any building, vessel, tent or place; or

(b) vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes the property of any person; or

(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.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Delhi Police Act, 1978
Section	124
Marginal note	Vexatious entry, search, arrest, etc., by police officer.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

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