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Search, implies an expiratory examination or prob-ing into or seeking something which is hidden, sealed, exposed or demonstrated, AIR 1968 Raj 188 (203).

An examination of a person's body, property, or other area that the person would reasonably be expected to consider as private, conducted by a law-enforcement officer for the purpose of finding evidence of crime, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1351.

Implies an exploratory examination or probing into or seeking out something which is hidden, sealed, suspected, and not open, exposed or demonstrated, Hiralal Chhaganlal v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1968 Raj 188.

Means an exploratory investigation by a government agent that intrudes on an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy and is conducted usually for the purpose of finding evidence of unlawful activity or guilt or to locate a person, State v. Mahone, 701 P 2d 171 (1985).