Title : Escape from Custody
State : Central
Year : 1950
Any person subject to this Act who, being in lawful custody, escapes or attempts to escape, shall, on conviction by court-martial, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Offences in Respect of Property
State : Central
Year : 1950
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-- (a) commits theft of any property belonging to the Government, or to any military, naval or air force mess, band or institution, or to any person subject to military, naval or air force law; or (b) dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use any such property; or (c) commits criminal breach of trust in respect of any such property; or (d) dishonestly receives or retains any such property in respect of which any of the offences under clauses (a), (b) and (c) has been committed, knowing or having reason to believe the commission of such offence; or (e) wilfully destroys or injures any property of the Government entrusted to him; or (f) does any other thing with intent to..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Extortion and Corruption
State : Central
Year : 1950
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-- (a) commits extortion; or (b) without proper authority exacts from any person money, provisions or service, shall, on conviction by court-martial, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Making Away with Equipment
State : Central
Year : 1950
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-- (a) makes away with, or is concerned in making away with, any arms, ammunition, equipment, instruments, tools, clothing or any other thing being the property of the Government issued to him for his use or entrusted to him; or (b) loses by neglect anything mentioned in clause (a); or (c) sells, pawns, destroys or defaces any medal or decoration granted to him, shall, on conviction by court-martial, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend in the case of the offences specified in clause (a) to ten years, and in the case of the offences specified in the other clauses to five years, or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Falsifying Official Documents and False Declaration
State : Central
Year : 1950
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-- (a) in any report, return, list, certificate, book or other document made or signed by him, or of the contents of which it is his duty to ascertain the accuracy, knowingly makes, or is privy to the making of any false or fraudulent statement; or (b) in any document of the description mentioned in clause (a) knowingly makes, or is privy to the making of, any omission, with intent to defraud; or (c) knowingly and with intent to injure any person, or knowingly and with intent to defraud, suppresses, defaces, alters or makes away with any documents which it is his duty to preserve or produce; or (d) where it is his official duty to make a declaration respecting any matter, knowingly makes a..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Signing in Blank and Failure to Report
State : Central
Year : 1950
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-- (a) when signing any document relating to pay, arms, ammunition, equipment, clothing, supplies or stores, or any property of the Government fraudulently leaves in blank any material part for which his signature is a voucher; or (b) refuses or by culpable neglect omits to make or send a report or return which it is his duty to make or send, shall, on conviction by court-martial, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Offences Relating to Courts-martial
State : Central
Year : 1950
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-- (a) being duly summoned or ordered to attend as a witness before a court-martial, wilfully or without reasonable excuse, makes default in attending; or (b) refuses to take an oath or make an affirmation legally required by a court-martial to be taken or made; or (c) refuses to produce or deliver any document in his power or control legally required by a court-martial to be produced or delivered by him; or (d) refuses when a witness to answer any question which he is by law bound to answer; or (e) is guilty of contempt of court-martial by using insulting or threatening language, or by causing any interruption or disturbance in the proceedings of such court, shall, on conviction by..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Unlawful Detention of Pay
State : Central
Year : 1950
Any officer, junior commissioned officer, warrant officer or non-commissioned officer who, having received the pay of a person subject to this Act unlawfully detains or refuses to pay the same when due, shall, on conviction by court-martial, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Punishments in Addition to Those Specified in Section 80
State : Central
Year : 1950
1 [The Chief of the Army Staff]may, with the consent of the Central Government, specify such otherpunishments as may be awarded under section 80 in addition to or without anyof the punishments specified in the said section, and the extent to which such otherpunishments may be awarded. ______________________ 1.Substituted by Act 19 of 1955,sec. 2 and Sch., for "theCommander-in-Chief. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Pay and Allowances of Prisoner of War During Inquiry into His Conduct
State : Central
Year : 1950
Where (he conduct of any person subject to this Act when being taken prisoner by, or while in the hands of . the enemy, is to be inquired into under this Act or any other law,1[the Chief of the Army Staff] or any officer authorised by him may order that the whole or any part of the pay and allowances of such person shall be withheld pending the result of such inquiry. _____________________ 1 . Substituted b v Act 19 of 1955 , sec. 2 and Sch., for "the Commander-in-Chief." View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section