law: Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940
  22.
  
  Powers of Inspectors
  
  (1) Subject to the provisions of section 23 and of any rules
  
  made by the Central Government in this behalf, an Inspector may, within the
  
  local limits of the area for which he is appointed,-
   99  [(a) inspect,-
  (i) any premises wherein any drug or cosmetic
  
  is being manufactured and the means employed for standardizing and testing the
  
  drug or cosmetic;
  (ii) any premises wherein any drug or cosmetic
  
  is being sold, or stocked or exhibited or offered for sale. or distributed;
  (b) take samples of. any drug or cosmetic,-
  (i) which is being manufactured or being sold
  
  or is stocked or exhibited or offered for sale, or is being distributed;
  (ii) from any person who is in the course of
  
  conveying, delivering or preparing to deliver such drug or cosmetic to a
  
  purchaser or a consignee;
  (c) at all reasonable times, with such
  
  assistance, if any, as he considers necessary,-
  (i) search any person, who, he has reason to
  
  believe, has secreted about his person, any drug or cosmetic in respect of
  
  which an offence under this Chapter has been, or is being, committed, or
  (ii) enter and search any place, in which he
  
  has reason to believe that an offence under this Chapter has been, or is being,
  
  committed; or
  (iii) stop and search any vehicle, vessel or
  
  other conveyance which, he has reason to believe, is being used for carrying
  
  any drug or cosmetic in respect of which an offence under this Chapter has
  
  been,. or is being, committed, and order in writing the person in possession of
  
  the drug or cosmetic in respect of which the offence has been, or is being,
  
  committed, not to dispose of any stock of such drug or cosmetic for a specified
  
  period not exceeding twenty days, or, unless the alleged offence is such that
  
  the defect may be removed by the possessor of the drug or cosmetic. seize the
  
  stock of such drug or cosmetic and any substance or article by means of which
  
  the offence has been, or is being, committed or which may be employed for the
  
  commission of such offence;]
   100  [(cc) examine any record, register,
  
  document or any other material object found 101[with any person, or
  
  in any place, vehicle, vessel or other conveyance referred to in clause (c)],
  
  and seize the same if he has reason to believe that it may furnish evidence of
  
  the commission of an offence punishable under this Act or the rules made
  
  thereunder;]
   102  [(cca) require any person to produce
  
  any record, register, or other document relating to the manufacture for sale or
  
  for distribution, stocking, exhibition for sale, offer for sale or distribution
  
  of any drug or cosmetic in respect of which he has reason to believe that an
  
  offence under this Chapter has been, or is being, committed ;]
  (d) exercise such other powers as may be
  
  necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Chapter or any rules made
  
  thereunder.
  (2) The provisions of 103[the Code of Criminal
  
  Procedure, 1973] shall, so far 2 of 1974 as may be, apply to any search or
  
  seizure under this Chapter as they apply to any search or seizure made under
  
  the authority of a warrant issued under 104[section 94] of the said
  
  Code.
   102  [(2A) Every record, register or other document seized
  
  under clause (cc) or produced under clause (cca) shall be returned to the
  
  person, from whom they were seized or who produce the same, within a period of
  
  twenty days of the date of such seizure or production, as the case may be,
  
  after copies thereof or extracts there from certified by that person, in such
  
  manner as may be prescribed, have been taken.]
  (3) If any person willfully obstructs an Inspector in the
  
  exercise of the powers conferred upon him by or under this Chapter 102[or
  
  refuses to produce any record, register or other document when so required
  
  under clause (cca) of sub-section (1),] he shall be punishable with
  
  imprisonment which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.]