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Home Bare Acts Phrase: found Page 1 of about 3,048 results (0.012 seconds)Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, (Maharashtra) Section 5
Title: Summary Inquiry in Respect of Persons Found Begging and their Detention
State: Maharashtra
Year: 1959
.....aforesaid is a child, being a child who is not under the age of five years, the Court shall forward him to a Juvenile Court, and shall not made any order under sub-section (5). The Juvenile Court shall deal with the child under section 40 of the Bombay Children Act, 1948, as if the child were a person described in clause (a) of that section. For the purpose of ascertaining the age of the person, the Court may, if necessary cause the beggar to be examined by a medical officer. NOTES The problem of beggars had became extremely acute, particularly in major urban centres like Bombay, Poona, Nagpur, Sholapur. etc. The total population of beggars all over the State of Maharashtra was estimated at about 1.50,000 of which about 75,000 were estimated to be in Greater Bombay alone. Of these 75,000 about 45.000 were estimated to be able-bodied beggars. In order to obviate the nuisance of beggars from Greater Bombay first and then from other areas in the State Government had decided to undertake immediately a crash programme for massive arrests of beggars in Greater Bombay and for taking necessary proceedings against them under the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959. Where the.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBombay Children Act, 1948, (Maharashtra) Section 40
Title: Children Found Homeless, Destitute, Etc.
State: Maharashtra
Year: 1948
.....parent or guardian, or has a parent or guardian unfit to exercise or incapable of exercising proper care and guardianship, or who is not exercising proper care and guardianship; or (c) is known to associate or live with any prostitute or person or persons of criminal or drunken habits; or (d) is lodging or residing in or frequently going to a place or places used for the purposes of prostitution; or (e) is otherwise likely to fall into bad association or to be exposed to moral danger, or to enter upon a life of crime. ______________________ 1. These words and brackets were inserted by Mah. 54 of 1975, section 23. 2. This word was substituted for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBombay Prohibition Act, 1949, (Maharashtra) Section 84
Title: Penalty for Being Found Drunk in Any Drinking House
State: Maharashtra
Year: 1949
Whoever is found drunk or drinking in a common drinking house or is found there present for the purpose of drinking shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees. Any person found in a common drinking house during any drinking therein shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have been there for the purpose of drinking.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPublic Gambling Act 1867 Section 4
Title: Penalty for Being Found in Gaming-house
State: Central
Year: 1867
Whoever is found in any such house, walled enclosure, room or place, playing or gaming with cards, dice, counters, money or other instruments of gaming, or is found there present for the purpose of gaming, whether playing for any money, wager, stake or otherwise, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, or to imprisonment of either description, as defined in the Indian Penal Code, for any term not exceeding one month, and any person found in any common gaming-house during any gaming or playing therein shall be presumed, until the contrary be proved, to have been there for the purpose of gaming.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Evidence Act 1872 Section 32
Title: Cases in Which Statement of Relevant Fact by Person Who is Dead or Cannot Be Found, Etc., is Relevant
State: Central
Year: 1872
.....procured, without an amount of delay or expense which under the circumstances of the case appears to the Court unreasonable, are themselves relevant facts in the following cases:-- (1) when it relates to cause of death.-When the statement is made by a person as to the cause of his death, or as to any of the circumstances of the transaction which resulted in his death, in cases in which the cause of that person's death comes into question. Such statements are relevant whether the person who made them was or was not, at the time when they were made, under expectation of death, and whatever may be the nature of the proceeding in which the cause of his death comes into question. (2) or is made in course of business.-When the statement was made by such person in the ordinary course of business, and in particular when it consists of any entry or memorandum made by him in books kept in the ordinary course of business, or in the discharge of professional duly; or of an acknowledgment written or signed by him of the receipt of money, goods, securities or property of any kind; or of a document used in commerce written or signed by him; or of the date of a letter or other document.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCentral Excise Act, 1944 Section 5
Title: Remission of Duty on Goods Found Deficient in Quantity
State: Central
Year: 1944
1[5. Remission of duty on goods found deficient in quantity (1) The Central Government may, by rules made under this section, provide for remission of duty of excise leviable on any excisable goods which due to any natural cause, are found to be deficient in quantity. (2) Any rules made under sub-section (1) may, having regard to the nature of the excisable goods or of processing or of curing thereof, the period of their storage or transit and other relevant considerations, fix the limit or limits of percentage beyond which no such remission shall be allowed : Provided that different limit or limits of percentage may be fixed for different varieties of the same excisable goods or for different areas or for different seasons.] _______________________ 1. Section 5 omitted by Act 41 of 1954, section 2 and Schedule and inserted by Act 25 of 1978, section 20 (w.e.f. 1-7-1978).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCalcutta Pilots Act, 1859 Section 17
Title: Sentence if Accused Found Guilty
State: Central
Year: 1859
If by such verdict the accused person is found guilty of the charge or of anyone or more of the charges preferred against him, the Judge of the Court shall sentence him to be dismissed from the said pilot service, or to have his license withdrawn, or shall award such other punishment, by loss of rank, or by change of a license from a higher to a lower grade, or suspension from employment for a specific period, as to the Judge shall appear fit. Preparation of schedule of offences and punishments. The Central Government, may prepare a schedule of offences and punishments (such punishments being of the same nature as those hereinbefore mentioned) for the guidance of the said Court; and if such schedule be prepared and the charge proved before the said Court is an offence specified in such schedule, the Judge of the said Court shall award such punishment as is prescribed for such offence in the said schedule, and no other. Acquittal. If by such verdict as aforesaid the accused person is found not guilty of the charge or charges preferred against him, the Judge shall declare him acquitted of the same.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionKarnataka Police Act, 1963 Section 96
Title: Being Found Under Suspicious Circumstances Between Sunset and Sunrise
State: Karnataka
Year: 1963
Whoever is found between sunset and sunrise,-- (a) armed with any dangerous instrument with intent to commit an offence, or (b) having his face covered, or otherwise disguised with intent to commit an offence, or (c) in any dwelling house or other building, or boat, without being able satisfactorily to account for his presence there, or (d) lying or loitering in any street, yard or other place, being a reputed thief and without being able to give satisfactory account of himself, or (e) having in his possession without lawful excuse (the burden of proving which excuse shall be on such person) any implement of house breaking, shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, (Maharashtra) Section 4
Title: Power to Require Person Found Begging to Appear Before Court
State: Maharashtra
Year: 1959
(1) Any police officer, or other person authorised in this behalf in accordance with rules make by the State Government, may arrest without a warrant any person who is found begging : Provided that, no person entering on any private premises for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms shall be so arrested or shall be liable to any proceedings under this Act, except upon a complaint by the occupier of the premises. (2) Such Police Officer or other person shall take or send the person so arrested to a Court. (3) The provisions of section 61 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, shall apply to every arrest under this section, and the officer in charge of the police station or section shall cause the arrested person to be kept in the prescribed manner until he can be brought before a Court.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBombay Police Act, 1951, (Maharashtra) Section 122
Title: Being Found Under Suspicious Circumstances Between Sunset and Sunrise
State: Maharashtra
Year: 1951
.....an offence; or (c) in any dwelling-house or other building or on board any vessel or boat without being able satisfactorily to account for his presence there, or (d) laying or loitering in any street, yard or other place, being a reputed thief and without being able to give a satisfactory account of himself; or (e) having in his possession without lawful excuse (the burden of proving which excuse shall be on such person)1[any implement of house-breaking,-- shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment which may extend to one year, but shall not, except for reasons to be recorded in writing, be less than one month and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to2[one thousand rupees.] ___________________ 1. These words were substituted for the words "any implement of house breaking shall, on conviction be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months" by Mah. 29 of 1970, s. 4. 2. These words were substituted for the words "five hundred rupees" by Mah. 40 of 2000, s. 19, (w.e.f. 9-10-2000).
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