- Any excise officer, police officer or any other person who vexatiously and without reasonable ground for suspicion -
(a) enters or searches or causes to be entered or searched any closed place under color of exercising any power conferred by this Act; or
(b) seizes the movable property of any person on the pretext of seizing or searching for any article liable to confiscation under this Act; or
(c) searches, detains or arrests any person;or
(d) in any other way exceeds his lawful powers under this Act,