law: Custom Act, 1962 
  102.
  
  Persons to be Searched May Require to be taken before Gazetted Officer of Customs or Magistrate. – 
  (1)
  
  When any officer of customs is about to search any person under the provisions
  
  of section 100 or section 101, the officer of customs shall, if such person so
  
  requires, take him without unnecessary delay to the nearest gazetted officer of
  
  customs or magistrate.
  
  
  (2) If such requisition is made, the officer of customs may detain the person 
  
  making it until he can bring him before the gazetted officer of customs or the 
  
  magistrate.
  (3)
  
  The gazetted officer of customs or the magistrate before whom any such person
  
  is brought shall, if he sees no reasonable ground for search, forthwith
  
  discharge the person but otherwise shall direct that search be made.
  (4)
  
  Before making a search under the provisions of section 100 or section 101, the
  
  officer of customs shall call upon two or more persons to attend and witness
  
  the search and may issue an order in writing to them or any of them so to do;
  
  and the search shall be made in the presence of such persons and a list of all
  
  things seized in the course of such search shall be prepared by such officer or
  
  other person and signed by such witnesses.
  (5)
  
  No female shall be searched by any one excepting a female.