Title : Order for Custody and Disposal of Property Pending Trial
State : Central
Year : 1968
When any property regarding which any offence appears to have been committed, or which appears to have been used for the commission of any offence, is produced before a Security Force Court during a trial, the court may make such order as it thinks fit for the proper custody of such property pending the conclusion of the trial, and if the property is subject to speedy or natural decay may, after recording such evidence as it thinks necessary, order it to be sold or otherwise disposed of. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Annulment of Proceedings
State : Central
Year : 1968
The Central Government, the Director-General, or any prescribed officer may annul the proceedings of any Security Force Court on the ground that they are illegal or unjust. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Provisions as to Existing Border Security Force
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) The Border Security Force in existence at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be the Force constituted under this Act. (2) Member of the Border Security Force in existence at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been appointed or as the case may be enrolled as such under this Act. (3) Anything done or any action taken before the commencement of this Act in relation to the constitution of the Border Security Force referred to in sub-section (1), in relation to any person appointed or enrolled, as the case may be, thereto, shall be as valid and as effective in law as if such thing or action was done or taken under this Act: Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall render any person guilty of any offence in respect of anything done or omitted to..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Short Title and Commencement
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) This Act may be called the Border Security Force Act, 1968. (2) It shall come into force on such date1as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. ____________________ 1. Came into force on IstMarch, 1969, videS.0. 732, dated 20th February, 1969, Gazette of India, Extra., Pt. II, Section 3(ii), p.235. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Offences Relating to Security Force Court
State : Central
Year : 1968
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 Security Force Court, wilfully or without reasonable excuse, makes default in attending; or (b) refuses to take an oath or make an affirmation legally required by a Security Force Court to be taken or made; or (c) refuses to produce or deliver any document in his power or control legally required by a Security Force Court 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 the Security Force Court by using insulting or threatening language, or by causing any interruption or disturbance in the proceedings of such..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Interval Between Committal and Trial
State : Central
Year : 1968
In every case where any such person as is mentioned in section 57 and as is not on active duty, remains in such custody for a longer period than eight days without a Security Force Court for his trial being convened, a special report giving reasons for the delay shall be made by his Commandant in the manner prescribed, and a similar report shall be forwarded at intervals of every eight days until a Security Force Court is convened or such person is released from custody. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Oaths of Member, Law Officer and Witness
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) An oath or affirmation in the prescribed manner shall be administered to every member of every Security Force Court and to the Law Officer or as the case may be the officer approved under section 83, before the commencement of the trial. (2) Every person giving evidence before a Security Force Court shall be examined after being duly sworn or affirmed in the prescribed form. (3) The provisions of sub-section (2) shall not apply where the witness is a child under twelve years of age and the Security Force Court is of opinion that though the witness understands the duty of speaking the truth, he does not understand the nature of an oath or affirmation. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Voting by Members
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), every decision of a Security Force Court shall be passed by an absolute majority of votes; and where there is an equality of votes on either the finding or the sentence, the decision shall be in favour of the accused. (2) No sentence of death shall be passed by a General Security Force Court without the concurrence of at least two-thirds of the members of the court. (3) In matters, other than a challenge or the finding or sentence, the presiding officer shall have a casting vote. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Order for Disposal of Property Regarding Which Offence is Committed
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) After the conclusion of a trial before any Security Force Court, the court or the officer confirming the finding or sentence of such Security Force Court, or any authority superior to such officer, or, in the case of a Summary Security Force Court whose finding or sentence does not require confirmation, an officer not below the rank of Deputy Inspector-General within whose command the trial was held, may make such order as it or he thinks fit for the disposal by destruction, confiscation, delivery to any person claiming to be entitled to possession thereof, or otherwise, of any property or document produced before the court or in its custody, or regarding which any offence appears to have been committed or which has been used for the commission of any offence. (2) Where any order..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Liability for Service Outside India
State : Central
Year : 1968
Every member of the Force shall be liable to serve in any part of India as well as outside India. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section