Title : Falsifying Official Documents and False Declarations
State : Central
Year : 1968
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-- (a) in any report, return, list, certificate, book or other document made or signed by him, or of the contents of which it is his duty to ascertain the accuracy, knowingly makes, or is privy to the making of, any false or fraudulent statement; or (b) in any document of the description mentioned in clause (a) knowingly makes, or is privy to the making of, any omission, with intent to defraud; or (c) knowingly and with intent to injure any person, or knowingly and with intent to defraud, suppresses, defaces, alters or makes away with any document which it is his duty to preserve or produce; or (d) where it is his official duty to make a declaration respecting any matter, knowingly makes a..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Signing in Blank and Failure to Report
State : Central
Year : 1968
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-- (a) when signing any document relating to pay, arms, ammunition, equipment, clothing, supplies or stores, or any property of the Government fraudulently leaves in blank any material part for which his signature is a voucher; or (b) refuses or by culpable neglect omits to make or send a report or return which it is his duty to make or send, shall, on conviction by a Security Force Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned. 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 : Unlawful Detention of Pay
State : Central
Year : 1968
Any officer, subordinate officer or an under-officer who, having received the pay of a person subject to this Act unlawfully detains or refuses to pay the same when due, shall, on conviction by a Security Force Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned. 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 : 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 : Punishment of Persons of and Below the Rank of Subordinate Officers by Deputy Inspectors-general and Others
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) An officer not below the rank of the Deputy Inspector-General or such other officer as is, with the consent of the Central Government, specified by the Director-General may, in the prescribed manner, proceed against a person of or below the rank of a subordinate officer who is charged with an offence under this Act and award one or more of the following punishments, that is to say,-- (a) forfeiture of seniority, or in the case of any of them whose promotion depends upon the length of service forfeiture of service for the purpose of promotion for a period not exceeding twelve months, but subject to the right of the accused previous to the award to elect to be tried by a Security Force Court; (b) severe reprimand or reprimand; (c) stoppage of pay and allowances until any proved..... 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 : Arrest by Civil Authorities
State : Central
Year : 1968
Whenever any person subject to this Act, who is accused of an offence under this Act, is within the jurisdiction of any magistrate or police officer, such magistrate or police officer shall aid in the apprehension and delivery to Force custody of such person upon receipt of a written application to that effect signed by his Commandant or an officer authorised by the Commandant in that behalf. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Capture of Deserters
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) Whenever any person subject to this Act deserts, the Commandant of the unit to which he belongs, shall give information of the desertion to such civil authorities as, in his opinion, may be able to afford assistance towards the capture of the deserter; and such authorities shall thereupon take steps for the apprehension of the said deserter in like manner as if he were a person for whose apprehension a warrant had been issued by a magistrate, and shall deliver the deserter, when apprehended, into Force custody. (2) Any police officer may arrest without warrant any person reasonably believed to be subject to this Act, and to be a deserter or to be travelling without authority and shall bring him without delay before the nearest magistrate, to be dealt with according to law. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section