law: The Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 
  24. Power of seizure
  
  and arrest in public places.-
  Any subordinate
  
  officer to the enforcement officer as is authorised in section 23 may- 
  a.     
  
    seize,
  
  in any public place or in transit, any goods, in relation to which he has
  
  reason to believe an offence punishable under Chapter VI has been committed,
  
  and, along with such goods, any conveyance liable to confiscation under this
  
  Act, and any document or goods which he has reason to believe may furnish
  
  evidence of the commission of an offence punishable under Chapter VI relating
  
  to such goods;
  b.    
  
    detain
  
  and search any person whom he has reason to believe to have committed an
  
  offence punishable under Chapter VI, and, if such person has any Toxic Chemical
  
  or Precursor or any Discrete Organic Chemical phosphorous, sulphur or fluorine
  
  in his possession and such possession appears to him to be unlawful, arrest him
  
  and any other person in his company. including Discrete Organic Chemicals
  
  containing elements of Explanation.- 
  For the purposes of
  
  this section, the expression "public place" includes any public
  
  conveyance, shop, hotel or other place intended for use by, or accessible to,
  
  the public.