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The Indian Penal Code 1860 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....Court of Justice (including a liquidator, receiver or Commissioner) whose duty is, as such officer, to investigate or report on any matter of law or fact, or to make, authenticate, or keep any document, or to take charge or dispose of any property or to execute any judicial process, or to a administrator any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order in the Court, and every person specially authorized by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties; Fifth--Every juryman, assessor, or member of a Panchayat assisting a Court of Justice or public servant; Sixth--Every arbitrator or other person to whom any cause or matter has been referred for decision or report by any Court of Justice, or by any other competent public authority; Seventh--Every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement; Eighth--Every officer of the Government, whose duty it is, as such officer, to prevent offences, to give information of offences, to being offenders to justice, or to protect the public health, safety or convenience; Ninth--Every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend any property on behalf of.....

Karnataka Police Act, 1963 Chapter X

Title: State Reserve Police Force

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

.....of the default, together with the names of witnesses, explanation of the defaulter and the order of punishment and shall sign and date each such order. Section 160 - Protection for acts of members of Force (1) In any suit or proceeding against any member of the State Reserve Police Force for any act done by him in pursuance of a warrant or order of a competent authority, it shall be lawful for him to plead that such act was done by him under the authority of such warrant or order. (2) Any such plea may be proved by the production of the warrant or order directing the act, and if it is so proved, the member of the said Force shall thereupon be discharged from liability in respect of the act so done by him, notwithstanding any defect in the jurisdiction of the authority which issued such warrant or order. Section 161 - Reserve police officer to be a police officer Except as specifically provided in this Chapter, every Reserve Police Officer shall for all purposes be deemed to be a police officer as defined in section 2, and the provisions of this Act shall except in so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Chapter apply to every such Reserve Police.....

Karnataka Police Act, 1963 Section 152

Title: Reserve Police Officer to Be Deemed to Be in Charge of Police Station

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

(1) When employed on active duty at any place under sub-section (1) of section 151, the senior reserve police officer of the highest rank not being lower than that of a Naik present shall be deemed to be an officer in charge of the police station for the purposes of Chapter IX of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sections 100 and 103 of the Indian Penal Code, a Reserve Police Officer employed as aforesaid may, when there is reasonable apprehension of assault on himself or any Reserve Police Officer or of damage or harm to any property or person which or whom it is his duty to protect, use such force to the wrong doer or assailant as may be reasonably necessary even though the use of such force may involve risk of death of the wrong doer or the assailant or any other person assisting such wrong doer or assailant.

The Sikkim Armed Police Force Act, 1981 Complete Act

State: Sikkim

Year: 1981

.....this Act. Saving of prosecutions under other laws. 25. Nothing in this Act shall prevent any person from being prosecuted under any other enactment, order or rule made under any other enactment, for any act or omission punishable there under or from being liable, if so prosecuted, to any other or higher penalty than is provided for in that Act or omission by this Act: Provided that no person shall be punished twice for the same offence. 26. (1) In any suit or proceedings against any officer of the Force for any act done by him In pursuance of a warrant or order of a superior officer, it shall be lawful for him to plead that such act was done by him. under the authority of' such warrant or order. (2) Any such plea may be proved by the production of the warrant or order directing the act, and if .it is so proved, the officer of the Force shall thereupon be discharged from liability in respect of the act so done by him, notwithstanding any defect in the jurisdiction of the authority, which issued such warrant or order. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any. other law, for the time being In force, any legal proceeding, whether 'civil or criminal, which may,.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 4

Title: General Exceptions

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....person doing the act in good faith believes that the Court had such jurisdiction. Section 79 - Act done by a person justified, or by mistake of fact believing himself justified, by law Nothing is an offence which is done by any person who is justified by law, or who by reason of a mistake of fact and not by reason of a mistake of law in good faith, believes himself to be justified by law, in doing it. Illustration A sees Z commit what appears to A to be a murder. A, in the exercise, to the best of his judgment exerted in good faith, of the power which the law gives to all persons of apprehending murderers in the fact, seizes Z, in order to bring Z before the proper authorities. A has committed no offence, though it may turn out that Z was acting in self-defence. Section 80 - Accident in doing a lawful act Nothing is an offence which is done by accident or misfortune, and without any criminal intention or knowledge in the doing of a lawful act in a lawful manner by lawful means and with proper care and caution. Illustration A is at work with a hatchet; the head flies off and kills a man who is standing by. Here, if there was no want of proper caution on the.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 100

Title: When the Right of Private Defence of the Body Extends to Causing Death

State: Central

Year: 1860

The right of private defence of the body extends, under the restrictions mentioned in the last preceding section, to the voluntary causing of death or of any other harm to the assailant, if the offence which occasions the exercise of the right be of any of the descriptions hereinafter enumerated, namely:-- First.--Such an assault as may reasonably cause the apprehension that death will otherwise be the consequence of such assault; Secondly.--Such an assault as may reasonably cause the apprehension that grievous hurt will otherwise be the consequence of such assault; Thirdly.--An assault with the intention of committing rape; Fourthly.--An assault with the intention of gratifying unnatural lust; Fifthly.--An assault with the intention of kidnapping or abducting; Sixthly.-- An assault with the intention of wrongfully confining a person, under circumstances which may reasonably cause him to apprehend that he will be unable to have recourse to the public authorities for his release.

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 101

Title: When Such Right Extends to Causing Any Harm Other Than Death

State: Central

Year: 1860

If the offence be not of any of the descriptions enumerated in the last preceding section, the right of private defence of the body does not extend to the voluntary causing of death to the assailant, but does extend, under the restrictions mentioned in section 99, to the voluntary causing to the assistant of any harm other than death.

Navy Act, 1957 Chapter VIII

Title: Articles of War

State: Central

Year: 1957

.....hereinafter mentioned. Section 59 - Arson Every person subject to naval law who unlawfully sets fire to any dockyard, victualling yard or steam factory yard, arsenal, magazine, building, stores or to any ship, vessel, hoy, barge, boat, aircraft, or other craft or furniture thereunto belonging, not being the property of an enemy, shall be punished with death or such other punishment as is hereafter mentioned. Section 60 - Falsifying official documents and false declarations Every person subject to naval law-- (a) who knowingly makes or signs a false report, return, list, certificate, book, muster or other document to be used for official purposes; or (b) who commands, counsels or procures the making or signing thereof; or (c) who aids or abets any other person in the making or signing thereof; or (d) who knowingly makes, commands, counsels or procures the making of, a false or fraudulent statement or a fraudulent omission in any such document; shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years or such other punishment as is hereinafter mentioned. Section 61 - Malingering, etc Every person subject to naval law-- (a) who wilfully.....

Navy Act, 1957 Section 56

Title: Offences by Officers in Charge of Convoy

State: Central

Year: 1957

(1) All officers appointed for the convoy and protection of any ships or vessels shall diligently perform their duty without delay according to their instructions in that behalf. (2) Every such officer subject to naval law, who,-- (a) does not defend the ships and goods under his convoy without deviation to any other objects; or (b) refuses to fight in their defence if they are assailed; or (c) cowardly abandons and exposes the ships in his convoy to hazard; or (d) demands or exacts any money or other reward from any merchant or master for convoying any ships or vessels entrusted to his care; or (e) misuses the masters or mariners thereof; shall be punished with death or such other punishment as is hereinafter mentioned, and shall also make such reparation in damages to the merchants, owners and others as a civil Court of competent jurisdiction may adjudge.

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....as such Magistrate, exercised the powers of an Assistant Sessions Judge, he may be invested with the powers under this section notwithstanding the fact that he has not exercised the powers of Magistrate of the first class for not less than ten years." Act 19 of 1969, Section 3 and Schedule, Item 14 (in Delhi on 2-10-1969). WEST BENGAL In its application to the State of West Bengal, for Section 30, substitute the following, namely: "30. Offences punishment with imprisonment not exceeding seven years.-Notwithstanding any thing contained in Section 28 or Section 29, the State Government may, in consultation with the High Court, invest any Judicial Magistrate of the first class with power to try as a Magistrate all offences not punishable with death or with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment for a term exceeding seven years : Provided that no Judicial Magistrate of the first class has, prior to his appointment as such powers unless he has, for not less than ten years, exercised powers not inferior to those of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class : Provided further that if any Judicial Magistrate of the first class has, prior to his appointment as such Magistrate,.....