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Penalty on officers making vexatious search, seizure, detention or arrest.— Any Excise Officer or Officer of the Police, Land Revenue Department or any other person duly empowered under Section 52, who vexatiously and unnecessarily— (a) enters or searches or causes to be entered or searched any place under colour of exercising any power conferred by this Act, or (b) seizes the movable property of any person on the pretence of seizing or searching for any article liable to confiscation under this Act, or (c) detains, searches or arrests any person, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both. 37 CHAPTER VII-A PENALTY FOR OFFENCES AGAINST LIFE 49-A. Penalty for import etc. of liquor unfit for human consumption or for altering or attempting to alter denatured spirituous preparation. — (1) Whoever— (a) import, exports, transports, manufactures, collects, possesses, bottles or sells any liquor; or (b) alters or attempts to alter any denatured spirit or denatured spirituous preparation with the intention that such spirit or denatured spirituous preparation may be used for human consumption, whether as a beverage or internally as a medicine, or in any other form or by any method whatsoever; or (c) has in his possession any spirit or denatured spirituous preparation, in respect of which he intentionally or knowingly allows or knowingly suffers any person to alter or attempt to alter, in either case with the intention specified in clause (b); any spirit into denatured spirit or into a denatured spirituous preparation; or (d) mixes denatured spirit or such altered denatured spirit or denatured spirituous preparation with potable spirit, and such liquor, denatured spirit, denatured spirituous preparation, spirit or altered denatured spirit as the case any be, is found unfit for human consumption or causes injury to or death of human being,— shall be punishable— where such liquor, denatured spirit, denatured spirituous preparation, spirit, or altered denatured spirit, as the case may be — (i) if found unfit for human consumption- to imprisonment which shall not be less than two months, but may extend to two years and shall also be liable to fine; (ii) causes injury to human being- to imprisonment which shall not be less than four months but may extend to four years and shall also be liable to fine. (iii) causes death of a human being- to imprisonment which shall not be less than two years but may extend to ten years and shall also be liable to fine. 38 (2) When any person is convicted under this section for a second or subsequent offence, he shall be punished in relation to circumstances — (a) Under clause (i) of sub- section (2) with imprisonment which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to four years and shall also be liable to fine; (ii) Under clause (ii) of sub- section (2) with imprisonment which shall not be less than one year but may extend to six years, and shall also be liable to fine; (iii) Under clause (iii) of sub- section (1) to imprisonment for life or imprisonment which shall not be less than five years but extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. 49-B. Omitted 39 CHAPTER VIII DETENTION, INVESTIGATION AND TRIAL OF OFFENCES