Title : Penalty for Excise Officer Refusing to Do Duty
State : Karnataka
Year : 1965
Any Excise Officer, who, without lawful excuse shall cease or refuse to perform or withdraws himself from, the duties of his office, unless expressly allowed to do so in writing by the Excise Commissioner, or unless he shall have given to his official superior officer two months' notice in writing of his intention to do so, or who shall be guilty of cowardice, shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment, which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Penalty for Vexatious Delay
State : Karnataka
Year : 1965
Any officer or person exercising powers under this Act, who vexatiously and unnecessarily delays forwarding to the nearest Excise Officer or to the officer in charge of the nearest police station, as required by sub-section (2) of section 59 any person arrested, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Penalty for Abetment of Escape of Person Arrested, Etc
State : Karnataka
Year : 1965
Any officer or person who unlawfully releases or abets the escape of any person arrested under this Act or abets the commission of any offence against this Act, or acts in any manner inconsistent with his duty for the purposes of enabling any person to do anything whereby any of the provisions of this Act may be evaded or contravened or the excise revenue may be defrauded and any officer of any other Department referred to in section 50 who abets the commission of any offence against this Act in any place, shall, on conviction, for every such offence, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Detection, Investigation and Trial of Offences
State : Karnataka
Year : 1965
(1) Whenever any intoxicant is manufactured or collected, or any hemp-plant is cultivated, in or on any land or building, in contravention of this Act,- (a) all owners and occupiers of such land or building or their agents, and (b) (i) village officers or servants including members of the village police, (ii) Chairman, members and officers of the village panchayat, and (iii) all officers (other than Excise Officers), employed in the collection of revenue or rent of land on behalf of the State Government, or a local authority in the locality in which such land or building is situate, shall, in the absence of reasonable excuse, be bound to give notice of the fact to a magistrate or to an officer of the Excise or Police or Revenue Department as soon as the fact comes to their..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Landholders, Officers and Others to Give Information
State : Karnataka
Year : 1965
(1) Whenever any intoxicant is manufactured or collected, or any hemp-plant is cultivated, in or on any land or building, in contravention of this Act,- (a) all owners and occupiers of such land or building or their agents, and (b) (i) village officers or servants including members of the village police, (ii) Chairman, members and officers of the village panchayat, and (iii) all officers (other than Excise Officers), employed in the collection of revenue or rent of land on behalf of the State Government, or a local authority in the locality in which such land or building is situate, shall, in the absence of reasonable excuse, be bound to give notice of the fact to a magistrate or to an officer of the Excise or Police or Revenue Department as soon as the fact comes to their..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power to Enter and Inspect Places of Manufacture and Sale
State : Karnataka
Year : 1965
The Excise Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner or any Excise Officer not below such rank as may be prescribed, or any Police Officer duly empowered in that behalf, may,- (a) enter and inspect, at any time, by day or by night, any place in which any licensed manufacturer manufactures or stores any intoxicant, and (b) enter and inspect at any time within the hours during which sale is permitted, and at any other time during which the same may be open, any place in which any intoxicant is kept for sale by any person holding a licence under this Act; and (c) examine the accounts and registers, and examine, test measure or weigh any materials, stills, utensils, implements, apparatus, or intoxicant found in such place. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Third Party Inspection or Special Audit
State : Karnataka
Year : 1965
Section 51A - Third party inspection or special audit 1 [51A. Third party inspection or special audit.-- (1) If the Excise Commissioner has reason to believe.-- a) that the licensee has not manufactured any excisable goods or spirits as per the norms specified under the rules made under this Act from time to time, having regard to the nature of the excisable goods or spirit produced or manufactured or the type of inputs used and other relevant factors; or b) the licensee has committed any fraud or made any mis-statement or suppression of facts in the accounts or statements submitted; or c) for any other reasons to be recorded in writing; he may direct for inspection or auditing of accounts of the distillery, brewery, winery, arrack processing unit or..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power to Arrest Without Warrant, to Seize Articles Liable for Confiscation and to Make Searches
State : Karnataka
Year : 1965
Section 52 - Power to arrest without warrant, to seize articles liable for confiscation and to make searches (1) Any officer of the State Government1[employed in the Excise Department, or any officer of the Police or Revenue Department empowered by the State Government in this behalf], subject to such restrictions as may be prescribed, and2[x x x] may,- (a) arrest without warrent any person1[for] an offence punishable under section 32, section 33, section34, section 36 or section 37; (b) seize and detain any excisable or other article which he has reason to belive to be liable to confiscation under this Act, or any other law for the time being in force relating to excise revenue; and (c) detain and search any person upon whom, and any vessel, raft, vehicle,..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power of Magistrate to Issue a Warrant
State : Karnataka
Year : 1965
If a magistrate, upon information and after such enquiry (if any) as he thinks necessary, has reason to belive that an offence under section 32, section 33, section34, section 36 or section 37 has been, is being, or is likely to be, committed, he may issue a warrant,- (a) for the search of any place in which he has reason to belive that any intoxicant, still, utensil, implement, apparatus or materials which are used for the commission of such offence or in respect of which such offence has been, is being, or is likely to be, committed, are kept or concealed, and (b) for the arrest of any person whom he has reason to belive to have been, to be, or to be likely to be, engaged in the commission of any such offence. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power to Search Without Warrant
State : Karnataka
Year : 1965
Whenever the Excise Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner or any police officer not below the rank of an officer in charge of a police station or any Excise Officer not below such rank as may be prescribed, has reason to belive that an offence under section 32, section 33, section 34, section 36 or section 37 has been, is being, or is likely to be, committed, and that a search warrant cannot be obtained without affording the offender an opportunity of escape or of concealing evidence of the offence, he may, after recording the grounds of his belief,- (a) at any time by day or by night enter and search any place and seize anything found therein which he has reason to belive to be liable to confiscation under this Act; and (b) detain and search and, if he thinks proper, arrest any..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section