law: Railways Act, 1989
  66. Power to require statement relating to the description
  
  of goods. 
  (1) The owner or a person having charge of any goods which are
  
  brought upon a railway for the purposes of carriage by railway, and the
  
  consignee or the endorsee of any consignment shall, on the request of any
  
  railway servant authorized in this behalf, deliver to such railway servant a
  
  statement in writing signed by such owner or person or by such consignee or
  
  endorsee, as the case may be, containing such description of the goods as would
  
  enable the railway servant to determine the rate for such carriage. 
  (2) If such owner or person refuses or neglects to give the statement
  
  as required under sub. section (1) and refuses to open the package containing
  
  the goods, if so required by the railway servant it shall be open to the
  
  railway administration to refuse to accept such goods for carriage unless such
  
  owner or person pays for such carriage the highest rate for any class of
  
  goods,.
  (3) If the consignee or endorsee refuses or neglects to give the
  
  statement as required under sub-section (1) and refuses to open the package
  
  containing the goods, if so required by the railway servant, it shall be open
  
  to the railway administration to charge in respect of the carriage of the goods
  
  the highest rate for any class of goods.
  (4) If the statement delivered under sub-section (1) is
  
  materially false with respect to the description of any goods to which it
  
  purports to relate, the railway administration may charge in respect of the
  
  carriage of such goods such rate, not exceeding double the highest rate for any
  
  class of goods as may be specified by the Central Government.
  (5) If any difference arises between a railway servant and such
  
  owner or person, the consignee or the endorsee, as the case may be, in respect
  
  of the description of the goods for which a statement has been delivered under
  
  sub-section (1), the railway servant may detain and examine the goods.
  (6) Where any goods have been detained under sub-section (5) for
  
  examination and upon such examination it is found that the description of the
  
  goods is different from that given in the statement delivered under sub-section
  
  (1), the cost of such detention and examination shall be borne by such owner or
  
  person, the consignee or the endorsee, as the case may be, and the railway
  
  administration shall not be liable for any loss, damage or deterioration which
  
  may be caused by such detention or examination.