Title : Punishment by Force Courts
State : Central
Year : 2007
(1) Punishments may be inflicted in respect of offences committed by persons subject to this Act and convicted by Force Courts according to the seals following, namely.-- (a) death, (b) imprisonment which may be for the term of life or any other lesser term but excluding imprisonment for a terra not exceeding three months in Force custody, (c) dismissal or removal from the service; (d) compulsory retirement from the service; (e) imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months in Force custody; (f) reduction to the ranks or to a lower rank or grade or a place in the list of their rank in the case of an under-officer; (g) reduction to next lower rank in case of an officer or subordinate officer: Provided that no officer shall be reduced to a rank lower than the one to..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Punishments Otherwise Than by Force Court
State : Central
Year : 2007
Punishments may also be inflicted in respect of offences committed by persons subject to this Act without the intervention of a Force Court in the manner stated in sections 56, 58 and 59. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Limit of Punishments Under Section 56
State : Central
Year : 2007
(1) In the case of an award of two or more of the punishments specified in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) of sub-section (1) of section 56, the punishments specified in clause (c) or clause (d) shall take effect only at the end of the punishment specified in clause (a) or clause (b). (2) When two or more of the punishments specified in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of subsection (1) of section 56 are awarded to a person conjointly, or when already undergoing one or more of the said punishments, the whole extent of the punishments shall not exceed in the aggregate forty-two days. (3) The punishments specified in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of sub-section (1) of section 56 shall not be awarded to any person who is of the rank of an under-officer or was, at the time of committing the offence..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Pay and Allowances During Trial
State : Central
Year : 2007
In the case of any person subject to this Act who is in custody or under suspension from duty on a charge for an offence, the prescribed officer may direct that the whole or any part of the pay and allowances of such person shall be withheld, pending the result of his trial on the charge against him, in order to give effect to the provisions of clause (b) of subsections (1) and (2) of section 61. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Pay and Allowances of Prisoner of War During Inquiry into His Conduct
State : Central
Year : 2007
Where the conduct of any person subject to this Act when being taken prisoner by, or while in the hands of, the enemy, is to be inquired into under this Act or any other law, the Director-General or any officer authorised by him may order that the whole or any part of the pay and allowances of such person shall be withheld pending the result of such inquiry. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Custody of Offenders
State : Central
Year : 2007
(1) Any person subject to this Act who is charged with any 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, if he engages in a quarrel, affray or disorder. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Duty of Commanding Officer in Regard to Detention
State : Central
Year : 2007
(1) It shall be the duty of every commanding officer to take care that a person under his command when charged with an offence is not detained in custody for more than forty-eight hours after the committal of such person into custody is reported to him, without the charge being investigated, unless investigation in the prescribed procedure, within that period seems to him to be impracticable having regard to the public service. (2) The case of every person being detained in custody beyond a period of forty-eight hours, and the reasons therefor, shall be reported by the commanding officer to the next higher officer or such other officer to whom an application may be made to convene a Force Court for the trial of the person charged. (3) In reckoning the period of forty-eight hours..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Arrest by Civil Authorities
State : Central
Year : 2007
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 commanding officer or an officer authorised by the commanding officer in that behalf. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Capture of Deserters
State : Central
Year : 2007
(1) Whenever any person subject to this Act deserts, the commanding officer of the unit to which he belongs or is attached, 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..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Inquiry into Absence Without Leave
State : Central
Year : 2007
(1) When any person subject to this Act has been absent from duty without due authority for a period of thirty days, a court of inquiry shall, as soon as practicable, be appointed by such authority and in such manner as may be prescribed; and such court shall, on oath or affirmation administered in the prescribed manner, inquire in respect of the absence of the person, and the deficiency, if any, in the property of the Government entrusted to his care, or in any arms, ammunition, equipment, instruments, clothing or accessories; and if satisfied of the fact of such absence without due authority or other sufficient cause, the court shall declare such absence and the period thereof and the said deficiency, if any, and the commanding officer of the unit to which the person belongs or is..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section