.....or records required under section 10; (d) furnishes a false return; or (e) fails to comply with or contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made there under:- The Prescribed Authority may, after giving such employer a reasonable opportunity of being heard, direct such employer to pay for each default, by way of penalty, a sum not exceeding Rs. 50/-. (2) If any person voluntarily obstructs the Prescribed Authority or any Inspector or any person in the services of the Government in the discharge of his duties under this Act, he shall be punishable with imprisonment, which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with both. CHAPTER V Miscellaneous 13. Recovery of contribution :- Any amount payable as contribution or by way of penalty under this Act shall, without prejudice to any other mode of recovery, be recoverable as an arrear of land revenue. 14. Indemnity :- No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the State Government or any officer of the State Government for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of the provisions of this Act or the.....
List Judgments citing this section.....Lok Adalat under subsection (1), it-- (a) shall direct each party to the application to file before it a written statement, stating therein the facts and nature of dispute under the application, points or issues in such dispute and grounds relied in support of, or in opposition to, such points or issues, as the case may be, and such party may supplement such statement with any document and other evidence which such party deems appropriate in proof of such facts and grounds and shall send a copy of such statement together with a copy of such document and other evidence, if any, to each of the parties to the application; (b) may require any party to the application to file additional statement before it at any stage of the conciliation proceedings; (c) shall communicate any document or statement received by it from any party to the application to the other party, to enable such other party to present reply thereto. (4) When statement, additional statement and reply, if any, have been filed under sub-section (3), to the satisfaction of the Permanent Lok Adalat, it shall conduct conciliation proceedings between the parties to the application in such manner as it thinks.....
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