The Customs Act

Power to search suspected persons entering or leaving India, etc

Power to search suspected persons in certain other cases

Persons to be searched may require to be taken before gazetted officer of customs or magistrate

Power to screen or X-ray bodies of suspected persons for detecting secreted goods

Power to arrest

Power to search premises

Power to stop and search conveyances

Power to inspect

Power to examine persons

Power to summon persons to give evidence and produce documents

Obligation to furnish informatio

Penalty for failure to furnish information return

Power to require production of order permitting clearance of goods imported by land

Power to undertake controlled delivery

Seizure of goods, documents and things

Provisional release of goods, documents and things seized pending adjudication


SEARCHES, SEIZURE AND ARREST


Any officer of customs empowered in this behalf by general or
special order of the 1[Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs] may, during the
course of any enquiry in connection with the smuggling of any goods,--

(a) require any person to produce or deliver any document or thing relevant to the enquiry;

(b) examine any person acquainted with the facts and circumstances of the case.


LAWGIST

# 107 Power to examine persons