Airport security screening outside customs areas remains valid where Customs officers subsequently conduct seizure using prescribed safeguards.

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....CISF airport security screening and preventive checks may extend to city-side airport areas during heightened security alerts. The article notes that interception of a passenger after customs clearance, based on suspicion concerning commercial quantities of goods, was treated as a security-profiling measure rather than an exercise of customs-enforcement power. It further states that CISF secured the goods and handed them to police and Customs, while competent Customs officers conducted the seizure through a panchanama with independent witnesses and stated search safeguards. On this account, the subsequent customs seizure was not considered vitiated by the prior CISF interception, and the writ petition was dismissed.....