law: Custom Act, 1962 
  103.
  
  Power to Screen or X-Ray Bodies of Suspected Persons for Detecting Secreted Goods. – 
  (1)
  
  Where the proper officer has reason to believe that any person referred to in
  
  sub-section (2) of section 100 has any goods liable to confiscation secreted
  
  inside his body, he may detain such person and produce him without unnecessary
  
  delay before the nearest magistrate.
  (2)
  
  A magistrate before whom any person is brought under sub-section (1) shall, if
  
  he sees no reasonable ground for believing that such person has any such goods
  
  secreted inside his body, forthwith discharge such person.
  (3)
  
  Where any such magistrate has reasonable ground for believing that such person
  
  has any such goods secreted inside his body and the magistrate is satisfied
  
  that for the purpose of discovering such goods it is necessary to have the body
  
  of such person screened or X-rayed, he may make an order to that effect.
  (4)
  
  Where a magistrate has made any order under sub-section (3), in relation to any
  
  person, the proper officer shall, as soon as practicable, take such person
  
  before a radiologist possessing qualifications recognized by the Central
  
  Government for the purpose of this section, and such person shall allow the
  
  radiologist to screen or X-ray his body.
  (5)
  
  A radiologist before whom any person is brought under sub-section (4) shall,
  
  after screening or X-raying the body of such person, forward his report,
  
  together with any X-ray pictures taken by him, to the magistrate without
  
  unnecessary delay.
  (6)
  
  Where on receipt of a report from a radiologist under sub-section (5) or
  
  otherwise, the magistrate is satisfied that any person has any goods liable to
  
  confiscation secreted inside his body, he may direct that suitable action for
  
  bringing out such goods be taken on the advice and under the supervision of a
  
  registered medical practitioner and such person shall be bound to comply with
  
  such direction :
  Provided
  
    that in the case of a female no such
  
  action shall be taken except on the advice and under the supervision of a
  
  female registered medical practitioner.
  (7)
  
  Where any person is brought before a magistrate under this section, such
  
  magistrate may for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this section
  
  order such person to be kept in such custody and for such period as he may
  
  direct.
  (8)
  
  Nothing in this section shall apply to any person referred to in sub-section
  
  (1), who admits that goods liable to confiscation are secreted inside his body,
  
  and who voluntarily submits himself for suitable action being taken for
  
  bringing out such goods.
  Explanation
  
  :  For the purposes of this section, the
  
  expression "registered medical practitioner" means any person who
  
  holds a qualification granted by an authority specified in the Schedule to the
  
  Indian Medical Degrees Act, 1916 (7 of 1916), or notified under section 3 of
  
  that Act, or by an authority specified in any of the Schedules to the Indian
  
  Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956).