Power to search suspected persons in certain other cases [Section 101]:
Without prejudice to the provisions of section 100, if an officer of customs empowered in this behalf by general or special order of the Principal Commissioner/Commissioner of Customs, has reason to believe that any person has secreted about his person any goods* of the description specified in sub-section (2) which are liable to confiscation, or documents relating thereto, he may search that person [Sub-section (1)].
| *Specified goods
The goods referred to in sub-section (1) are the following: – (a) gold (b) diamonds (c) manufactures of gold or diamonds (d) watches (e) any other class of goods which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify [Sub-section (2)]. |