Title : False Evidence
State : Central
Year : 1968
Any person subject to this Act who, having been duly sworn or affirmed before any Security Force Court or other court competent under this Act to administer an oath or affirmation, makes any statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, shall, on conviction by a Security Force Court, 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 : Civil Offences Not Triable by a Security Force Court
State : Central
Year : 1968
A person subject to this Act who commits an offence of murder or of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against, or of rape in relation to, a person not subject to this Act shall not be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Act and shall not be tried by a Security Force Court, unless he commits any of the said offences,-- (a) while on active duty; or (b) at any place outside India; or (c) at any place specified by the Central Government by notification in this behalf. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Custody of Offenders
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) Any person subject to this Act who is charged with an offence may be taken into Force custody, under the order of any superior officer. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), an officer may order into Force custody any other officer, though such other officer may be of a higher rank, engaged in a quarrel, affray or disorder. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Duty of Commandant in Regard to Detention
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) It shall be the duty of every Commandant to take care that a person under his command when charged with an offence is not detained in custody for more than forty-eight hours after the committal of such person into custody is reported to him, without the charge being investigated, unless investigation within that period seems to him to be impracticable having regard to the public service. (2) The case of every person being detained in custody beyond a period of forty-eight hours, and the reasons therefor, shall be reported by the Commandant to the Deputy Inspector-General under whom he is serving or such other officer to whom an application may be made to convene a Security Force Court for the trial of the person charged. (3) In reckoning the period of forty-eight hours specified..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Force Police Officers
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) The Director-General or any prescribed officer may appoint persons (in this Act referred to as Force police) for discharging the functions specified in sub-sections (2) and (3). (2) The duties of a person appointed under sub-section (1), are to take charge of persons confined for any offence, to preserve good order and discipline and to prevent breaches of the same by persons serving in, or attached to, the Force. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 57, a person appointed under subsection (1) may, at any time, arrest and detain for trial any person subject to this Act who commits, or is charged with, an offence, and may also carry into effect any punishment to be inflicted in pursuance of a sentence awarded by a Security Force Court or by an officer exercising..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Period of Custody Undergone by a Person to Be Set-off Against the Imprisonment
State : Central
Year : 1968
1[121A. Period of Custody undergone by a person to be set-off against the imprisonment When any person subject to this Act is sentenced by a security force court of fine, the period spent by him in civil of force custody during investigation, inquiry of trial of the same case, and before the date of order of such sentence, shall be set off against the term of imprisonment imposed upon him, and the liability of such person to undergo imprisonment on such order of sentence shall be restricted to the remainder, if any, of the term of imprisonment imposed upon him.] _____________________ 1. Inserted by Act 35 of 2000, section 2 (w.e.f. 1-9-2000). View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Offences in Relation to the Enemy and Not Punishable with Death
State : Central
Year : 1968
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-- (a) is taken prisoner or captured by the enemy, by want of due precaution or through disobedience of orders, or wilful neglect of duty, or having been taken prisoner or so captured fails to rejoin his service when able to do so; or (b) without due authority holds correspondence with, or communicates intelligence to, the enemy or any person in league with the enemy or having come by the knowledge of any such correspondence or communication, wilfully omits to discover it immediately to this Commandant or other superior officer, shall, on conviction by a Security Force Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years or such less punishment as is in this..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Offences Punishable More Severely on Active Duty Than at Other Times
State : Central
Year : 1968
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-- (a) forces a safeguard, or forces or uses criminal force to a sentry; or (b) breaks into any house or other place in search of plunder; or (c) being a sentry sleeps upon his post, or is intoxicated; or (d) without orders from his superior officer leaves his guard, picket, patrol or post; or (e) intentionally or through neglect occasions a false alarm in camp or quarters, or spreads or causes to be spread reports calculated to create unnecessary alarm or despondency; or (f) makes known the parole, watchword or countersign to any person not entitled to receive it; or knowingly gives a parole, watchword or countersign different from what he received, shall, on conviction by a Security..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Desertion and Aiding Desertion
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) Any person subject to this Act who deserts or attemps to desert the service shall, on conviction by a Security Force Court,-- (a) if he commits the offence when on active duty or when under order for active duty, be liable to suffer death or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned; and (b) if he commits the offence under any other circumstances, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned. (2) Any person subject to this Act who knowingly harbours any such deserter shall, on conviction by a Security Force Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned. (3) Any person subject to this Act who, being..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Striking or Threatening Superior Officers
State : Central
Year : 1968
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-- (a) uses criminal force to or assaults his superior officer; or (b) uses threatening language to such officer; or (c) uses insubordinate language to such officer; shall, on conviction by a Security Force Court,-- (A) if such officer is at the time in the execution of his office or, if the offence is committed on active duty, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned; and (B) in other cases, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned: Provided that in the case of an offence specified in clause (c), the imprisonment..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section