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Any Excise Officer or 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 the colour of exercising any power conferred by this Regulation; or r (b) seizes the moveable property of any person on the pretext of seizing or searching for any article liable to confiscation under this Regulation; or (c) searches, detains or arrests any person; or (d) in any other way exceeds his lawful powers under this Regulation, shall be punishable with fine'which may extend to ten thousand rupees,