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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 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 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 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 sectionExtradition Act, 1962 Section 28
Title: Property Found on Fugitive Criminal
State: Central
Year: 1962
Everything found in the possession of a fugitive criminal at the time of his arrest which may be material as evidence in proving the extradition offence may be delivered up with the fugitive criminal on his surrender or return, subject to the rights, if any, of third parties with respect thereof.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Forest Act, 1927 Section 57
Title: Procedure when Offender Not Known or Cannot Be Found
State: Central
Year: 1927
When the offender is not known or cannot be found, the Magistrate may, if he finds that an offence has been committed, order the property in respect of which the offence has been committed to be confiscated and taken charge of by the Forest-officer or to be made over to the person whom the Magistrate deems to be entitled to the same: Provided that no such order shall be made until the expiration of one month from the date of seizing such property, or without hearing the person, if any, claiming any right thereto, and the evidence, if any, which he may produce in support of his claim.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCode of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Section 64
Title: Service when Persons Summoned Cannot Be Found
State: Central
Year: 1973
Where the person summoned cannot, by the exercise of due diligence, be found, the summons may be served by leaving one of the duplicates for him with some adult male member of his family residing with him, and the person with whom the summons is so left shall, if so required by the serving officer, sign a receipt therefor on the back of the other duplicate. Explanation.A servant is not a member of the family within the meaning of this section.
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