(1)Any police officer below the rank of inspector or any other officer authorised in that behalf by the Minister, may detain, open and examine any package or article which he or she suspects to contain any publication or extract from a publication which it is an offence under section 34 to import, publish, sell, offer for sale, distribute, reproduce or possess and during such examination may detain any person importing, distributing or posting such package or article or in whose possession such package or article is found.

(2)If any publication or extract from it is found in any 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 immediately be arrested and proceeded against for the commission of an offence under section 34 or 35, as the case may be.