Whoever, being a police officer,-

(a) Enters into or conducts unnecessary searches or causes to be searched without lawful authority or reasons in any building, vessel, rent or place for causing annoyance, or

(b) Seizes the property of any person or detains a person in custody or conducts search or arrests any person illegally for causing annoyance and without reasonable cause, or

(c) Deliberately subjects, any person in custody or with whom he comes into-contact in the course of his duties, to torture or any kind of inhuman or unlawful personal violence or grave misconduct, or

(d) Deliberately, knowingly, and maliciously with intent to implicate an innocent person in a criminal offence records a false statement or make a forged document or raises a false allegation of attack on the police, or

(e) Deliberately and directly aids or abets for the commission of an offence which, as a police officer, he is bound to prevent,

Shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or fine or with both.

Provided that nothing in this section shall preclude any court from punishing any police officer, under any other law for the time being in force, if the same matter is an offence under the provisions of that law.