Section 26. Any customs-officer who, Any customs-officer who,

26. Any customs-officer who, Any customs-officer who, (a) without reasonablegroundof suspicion, searches OF Causes to be searched any house, boat or place ; (6) vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes the moveable property of .any person, on pretence of seizing or searching for any article liable to confiscation under this Act ; (c) commits as such officer any other act to tho injury of any person, when such officer has not reason to believe that such act is required for the execution of his duty, shall for every such offence be punishable by a Magistrate exercising powers not less than those of a Magistrate of the second class, with fine not exceeding five hundred rupees. Any person wilfully or maliciously giving false information and so causing a search to be made under this Act shdl be punishable by a 34agistrate cxcrcising exercising the same powers with fine not exceeding five .hundred rupees, or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or with both.