Power to examine packages

(1) Any of the following officers, (a) the Postmaster General; (b) the Comptroller of Customs; (c) the Commissioner of Police; (d) any senior police officer of or above the rank of Assistant Inspector; (e) any other official authorized in that behalf by the Minister, may detain, open and examine any package or article which he suspects to contain any publication or extract there from the possession of which is an offence and which is an offence under section 4 to import, publish, sell, offer for sale, distribute, reproduce, or possess, and during such examination 7 may detain any person possessing, importing, distributing, or posting such package or article or in whose possession such package or article is found. (2) If any such publication or extract there from is found in the package or article, the whole package or article may be impounded and retained by the officer and the person importing, distributing, or posting it, or in whose possession it is found, may forthwith be arrested and proceeded against for the commission of an offence under section 4 or 5 of this Act, as the case may be.