law: Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 
  22. Right of multimodal transport operator to
  
  have lien on goods and documents 
  (1) The multimodal transport operator who has not
  
  been paid the amount of consideration stipulated in the multimodal transport
  
  contract shall have a line on the consignment and on the documents in his
  
  possession.
  (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in
  
  sections 13, 16 and 18, the period during which the goods are in possession of
  
  the multimodal transport operator in exercise of his right of lien referred to
  
  in sub-section (1) shall not be included for the purposes of calculating the
  
  time of delay under any of those sections.