law: Custom Act, 1962 
  100.
  
  Power to Search Suspected Persons Entering or Leaving India, Etc. – 
  
  
  (1)
  
  If the proper officer has reason to believe that any person to whom this
  
  section applies has secreted about his person, any goods liable to confiscation
  
  or any documents relating thereto, he may search that person.
  (2)
  
  This section applies to the following persons, namely :- 
  (a) any person who has landed from or is about to board, or is on board
  
  any vessel within the Indian customs waters;
  (b) any person who has landed from or is about to board, or is on board
  
  a foreign-going aircraft;
  (c) any person who has got out of, or is about to get into, or is in, a
  
  vehicle, which has arrived from, or is to proceed to any place outside India;
  (d) any person not included in clauses (a), (b) or (c) who has entered
  
  or is about to leave India;
  (e) any person in a customs area.