Title : Ill-treating a Subordinate
State : Central
Year : 1968
Any officer, subordinate officer or under-officer, who uses criminal force to or otherwise ill-treats any person subject to this Act, being his subordinate in rank or position, 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 : Irregularity in Connection with Arrest or Confinement
State : Central
Year : 1968
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-- (a) unnecessarily detains a person in arrest or confinement without bringing him to trial, or fails to bring his case before the proper authority for investigation; or (b) having committed a person to Force custody fails without reasonable cause to deliver at the time of such committal, or as soon as practicable, and in any case within forty-eight hours thereafter, to the officer or other person into whose custody the person arrested is committed, an account in writing signed by himself of the offence with which the person so committed is charged, shall, on conviction by a Security Force Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or such less punishment..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Punishments Awardable by Security Force Courts
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) Punishments may be inflicted in respect of offences committed by persons subject to this Act and convicted by Security Force Courts according to the scale following, this is to say,-- (a) death; (b) imprisonment which may be for the term of life or any other lesser term but excluding imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months in Force custody; (c) dismissal from the service; (d) imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months in Force custody; (e) reduction to the ranks or to a lower rank or grade or place in the list of their rank in the case of an under-officer; (f) forfeiture of seniority of rank and forfeiture of all or any part of the service for the purpose of promotion; (g) forfeiture of service for the purpose of increased pay, pension or any other..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Combination of Punishments
State : Central
Year : 1968
A sentence of a Security Force Court may award in addition to, or without any one other punishment, the punishment specified in clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 48, and any one or more of the punishments specified in clauses (e) to (1) (both inclusive) of that sub-section. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Punishments Otherwise Than by Security Force Courts
State : Central
Year : 1968
Punishments may also be inflicted in respect of offences committed by persons subject to this Act without the intervention of a Security Force Court in the manner stated in sections 53 and 55. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Powers of a Petty Security Force Court
State : Central
Year : 1968
A Petty Security Force Court shall have power to try any person subject to this Act other than an officer or a subordinate officer for any offence made punishable thereunder and to pass any sentence authorised by this Act other than a sentence of death, or imprisonment for a term exceeding two years. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Conviction of Offence Not Charged
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) A person charged before a Security Force Court with desertion may be found guilty of attempting to desert or of being absent without leave. (2) A person charged before a Security Force Court with attempting to desert may be found guilty of being absent without leave. (3) A person charged before a Security Force Court with using criminal force may be found guilty of assault. (4) A person charged before a Security Force Court with using threatening language may be found guilty of using insubordinate language. (5) A person charged before a Security Force Court with any one of the offences specified in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) of section 30 may be found guilty of any other of these offences with which he might have been charged. (6) A person charged before a Security..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Evidence of Previous Convictions and General Character
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) When any person subject to this Act has been convicted by a Security Force Court of any offence, such Security Force Court may inquire into, and receive, and record evidence of any previous convictions of such person, either by a Security Force Court or by a criminal court, or any previous award of punishment under section 53 or 55, and may further inquire into and record the general character of such person and such other matters as may be prescribed. (2) Evidence received under this section may be either oral, or in the shape of entries in, or certified extracts from, books of Security Force Courts or other official records; and it shall not be necessary to give notice before trial to the person tried that evidence as to his previous convictions or character will be received. ..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power of Confirming Authority to Mitigate, Remit or Commute Sentences
State : Central
Year : 1968
Subject to such restrictions, reservations or conditions, as may be contained in any warrant issued under section 108 or section 109, a confirming authority may, when confirming the sentence of a Security Force Court, mitigate or remit the punishment thereby awarded, or commute that punishment for any punishment or punishments lower in the scale laid down in section 48. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Execution of Sentence of Imprisonment in Special Cases
State : Central
Year : 1968
Whenever, in the opinion of an officer not below the rank of Deputy Inspector-General within whose command the trial is held, any sentence or portion of a sentence of imprisonment cannot for special reasons, conveniently be carried out in Force custody in accordance with the provisions of section 121, such officer may direct that such sentence or portion of sentence shall be carried out by confinement in any civil prison or other fit place. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section