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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; (b) vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes the property of any person; (c) vexatiously and unnecessarily detains, searches or arrests any person; (d) vexatiously and unnecessarily delays forwarding any person arrested to a Magistrate or to any other authority to whom he is legally bound to forward such person; (e) offers any unnecessary personal violence to any person in his custody; (f) holds out any threat or promise not warranted by law to an accused person; (g) maliciously and without probable cause prefers any false, vexatious or frivolous charge or information against any individual; or (h) knowingly and wilfully and with evil intent exceeds his powers, shall on conviction for every such offence 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.