Title : Powers of a Petty Force Court
State : Central
Year : 2007
A Petty Force Court shall have the 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 : Place of Trial, Etc.
State : Central
Year : 2007
(1) Any person subject to this Act who commits any offence under this Act may be tried and punished for such offence at any place, (2) The persons by whom an accused may be defended in a trial and appearance of such persons thereat may be as prescribed. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : General Rule as to Evidence
State : Central
Year : 2007
The Indian Evidence Act, 1872,(1 of 1872) shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, apply to all proceedings before a Force Court. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Subsequent Fitness of Lunatic Accused for Trial
State : Central
Year : 2007
Where any accused person, having been found by reason of unsoundness of mind to be incapable of making his defence, is in custody or under detention under section 111, any officer prescribed in this behalf, may--- (a) if such person is in custody under sub-section (4) of section 111, on the report of a medical officer that he is capable of making his defence, or (b) if such person is detained in a jail under sub-section (5) of section 111, on a certificate of the Inspector-General of Prisons, and if such person is detained in a lunatic asylum under the said sub-section, on a certificate of any two or more of the visitors of such asylum and if he is detained in any other place under that sub-section, on a certificate of the prescribed authority, that he is capable of making his..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Release of Lunatic Accused
State : Central
Year : 2007
114. Where any person is in custody under sub-section (4) of section 111 or under detention under sub-section (5) of that section,-- (a) if such person is in custody under the said sub-section (4), on the report of a medical officer, or (b) if such person is detained under the said sub-section (5), on a certificate from any of the authorities mentioned in clause (b) of section 112 that in the judgment of such officer or authority such person may be released without danger of his causing injury to himself or to any other person, the Central Government may order that such person be released or detained in custody or transferred to a public lunatic asylum if he has not already been sent to such an asylum. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Petition Against Order, Finding or Sentence of Force Court
State : Central
Year : 2007
(1) Any person subject to this Act who considers himself aggrieved by any order passed by any Force Court may present a petition to the officer or authority empowered to confirm any finding or sentence of such Force Court, and the confirming authority may take such steps as may be considered necessary to satisfy itself as to the correctness, legality or propriety of the order passed or as to the regularity of any proceeding to which the order relates. (2) Any person subject to this Act who considers himself aggrieved by a finding or sentence of any Force Court which has been confirmed, may present a petition to the Central Government, the Director-General or any prescribed officer superior in command to the one who confirmed such finding or sentence, and the Central Government, the..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Informality or Error in Order or Warrant
State : Central
Year : 2007
Whenever any person is sentenced to imprisonment under this Act, and is undergoing the sentence in any place or manner in which he might be confined under a lawful order or warrant in pursuance of this Act, the confinement of such person shall not be deemed to be illegal only by reason of informality or error in, or as respects the order, warrant or other document, or the authority by which, or in pursuance whereof such person was brought into, or, is confined in any such place, and any such order, warrant or document may be amended accordingly. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Pardon and Remission
State : Central
Year : 2007
When any person subject to this Act has been convicted by a Force Court of any offence, the Central Government or the Director-General or, in the case of a sentence, which he could have confirmed or which did not require confirmation, an officer not below the rank of Additional Deputy Inspector-General within whose command such person at the time of conviction was serving, or the prescribed officer may,-- (a) either with or without conditions which the person sentenced accepts, pardon the person or remit the whole or any part of the punishments awarded; or (b) mitigate the punishment awarded; or (c) commute such punishment for any less punishment or punishments mentioned in this Act; or (d) either with or without conditions which the person sentenced accepts, release the person..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Redressal of Grievances of Persons Other Than Officers
State : Central
Year : 2007
(1) Any person subject to this Act other than an officer who deems himself wronged by any superior or other officer may complain to the officer under whose command he is serving. (2) When the officer complained against is the officer to whom any complaint should, under sub-section (1), be preferred, the aggrieved person may complain to such officer's next superior officer. (3) Every officer receiving any such complaint shall make as complete an investigation into it as may be possible for giving full redress to the complainant, or when necessary, refer the complaint to a superior authority. (4) The Director-General may revise any decision made under any of the foregoing sub-sections, but, subject thereto, such decision shall be final. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Offences Punishable More Severely on Active Duty Than at Other Times
State : Central
Year : 2007
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, namely:-- (a) forces a safeguard, or forces or uses criminal force to a sentry; or (b) breaks into any house or other place in search of plunder; or (c) being a sentry, sleeps upon his post or is Intoxicated; or (d) without orders from his superior officer leaves his guard, picket, patrol or post; or (e) intentionally or through neglect occasions a false alarm in camp or quarters, or spreads or causes to be spread reports calculated to create unnecessary alarm or despondency; or (1) makes known the parole, watchword or countersign to any person not entitled to receive it; or knowingly gives a parole, watchword or a countersign different from what he received, shall, on conviction by a Force Court,-- ..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section