(1) Any officer of the State Government 1[employed in the Excise Department, or any officer of the Police or Revenue Department empowered by the State Government in this behalf]1, subject to such restrictions as may be prescribed, and 2[x x x]2 may,-
(a) arrest without warrent any person 1[for]1 an offence punishable under section 32, section 33, section34, section 36 or section 37;
(b) seize and detain any excisable or other article which he has reason to belive to be liable to confiscation under this Act, or any other law for the time being in force relating to excise revenue; and
(c) detain and search any person upon whom, and any vessel, raft, vehicle, animal, package, receptacle or covering in or upon which, he may have reasonable cause to suspect any such article to be.
Excise [1966: KAR. ACT 21 402
1. Substituted by Act 1 of 1971 w.e.f. 07.08.1970.
2. Omitted by Act Act 1 of 1971 w.e.f. 07.08.1970.
(2) When any person is accused or is reasonably suspected of committing an offence under this Act, other than an offence under section 32, section 33, section34, section 36 or section 37 and on demand of any such officer as aforesaid, refuses to give his name and residence or gives a name and residence which such officer has reason to belive is false, he may be arrested by such officer, in order that his name and residence may be ascertained.