121. Power to open package etc. सवेष्टने, वगैरे उघडण्याचा अधिकार.
(1) Any Prohibition Officer duly empowered in this behalf by the 1State1 Government or any Police Officer may open any package and examine any goods and may 2stop and search2 for any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers, or molasses etc. any vessel, vehicle or other means of conveyance 3and may seize any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers, molasses or any other thing liable to confiscation or forfeiture under this Act or any other law for the time being in force relating to excise revenue found while making such search.3
(2) The unloading and canying of goods, the bringing of them to the place appointed under sub-section (3) for examination, the opening and repacking of them, where such operations 4are necessary for searches made4 under this section and the removing of goods to and placing of them in the place appointed under sub-section (3) 5fbr examination or deposit5 shall be performed by or at the expenses of the owner of such goods.
(3) The owner of goods or the persons incharge of the goods shall, if so required by any officer conducting the search, take the goods 6to a place appointed in Greater Bombay by the Commissioner of Police, Bombay and elsewhere, by the District Magistrate6 for the purpose of examination or deposit.
(4) The expenses incurred by the State Government for any of the purposes mentioned in sub-section (2) may be recovered from the owner, or as the case may be, the person-in-charge, of the goods as arrears of land revenue.
122. Power to require production of the license लायसन हजर करण्यास भाग पाडण्याचा अधिकार.
(1) The 9Commissioner9 or Collector or any Prohibition Officer duly empowered in this behalf by the State Government or any Police Officer may—
(a) require a licensed manufacturer or vendor or tapper or drawer of toddy or of a person in the employ of such manufacturer or vendor or tapper or drawer of toddy or with his express or implied permission on his behalf to produce the licence, permit, pass or authorisation issued under this Act under which he carries on the manufacture, storage, or sale of any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers or molasses or taps, toddy-producing trees or draws toddy therefrom;
(b) enter and inspect, at any time by day or by night, any land on which toddy-producing trees are growing, whether such trees are licensed for tapping or not, and any warehouse, godown, shop or premises in which any licensed manufacturer or vendor manufactures, stores, or sells any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers or molasses and examine, test, measure or weight any stock of any such articles or cause any such stock to be examined, tested, measured or weighed.
(2) If any officer mentioned in sub-section (1) finds that the holder of a licence, permit, pass or authorization issued under this Act, or a person in the employ of such holder or acting with his express or implied permission on his behalf wilfully does or omits to do anything, which is an offence under this Act, such officer may seize any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers or molasses or any material or article in respect of which the offence is committed any document or other article which he has reason to believe may fiimish evidence of the commission of an ofYence under this Act and send a report to his official superior for such action as he deems fit.