law: Custom Act, 1962 
  136.
  
  Offences by Officers of Customs. – 
  (1)
  
  If any officer of customs enters into or acquiesces in any agreement to do,
  
  abstains from doing, permits, conceals or connives at any act or thing whereby
  
  any duty of customs leviable on any goods, or any
  
  prohibition for the time being in force under this Act or any other law for the
  
  time being in force with respect to any goods is or may be evaded, he shall be
  
  punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or
  
  with fine, or with both.
  (2)
  
  If any officer of customs, - 
  (a) requires any person to be searched for goods liable to confiscation
  
  or any document relating thereto, without having reason to believe that he has
  
  such goods or document secreted about his person; or
  (b) arrests any person without having reason to believe that he has been
  
  guilty of an offence punishable under section 135; or
  (c) searches or authorises any other officer of customs to search any place
  
  without having reason to believe that any goods, documents or things of the
  
  nature referred to in section 105 are secreted in that place, he shall be
  
  punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with
  
  fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
  (3)
  
  If any officer of customs, except in the discharge in good faith of his duty as
  
  such officer or in compliance with any requisition made under any law for the
  
  time being in force, discloses any particulars learnt by him in his official
  
  capacity in respect of any goods, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for
  
  a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one
  
  thousand rupees, or with both.