State Act

the Himachal Pradesh Police Act, 2007

122. Arrest, search, seizure and violence.- Whoever, being a Police Officer- (i) without lawful authority or reasonable cause enters or searches, or causes to be entered or searched, any building, vessel, tent or place; or (ii) unlawfully or without reasonable cause seizes the property of any person; or (iii) unlawfully or without reasonable cause detains, searches, or arrests a person; or (iv) unlawfully or without reasonable cause delays the production of any person arrested or detained to a Magistrate or to any other authority to whom he is legally bound to produce such person; or (v) commits sexual harassment either while on duty or otherwise by misusing his authority as a Police Officer; or, (vi) subjects any person in his custody or with whom he may come into contact in the course of duty, to torture or to any kind of unlawful personal violence; or (vii) holds out any threat not warranted by law; shall, on conviction, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees, or with both.