Title : Miscellaneous Offences
State : Central
Year : 2007
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, namely:-- (a) being in command at any post or on the march, and receiving a complaint that any one under his command has beaten or otherwise maltreated or oppressed any person, or has disturbed any fair or market, or committed any riot or trespass, fails to have due reparation made to the injured person or to report the case to the proper authority; or (b) by defiling any place of worship, or otherwise, intentionally insults the religion, or wounds the religious feelings of, any person; or (c) attempts to commit suicide, and in such attempt does any act towards the commission of such offence; or (d) being below the rank of subordinate officer, when off duty, appears without proper authority, in or about..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Civil Offences Not Triable by a Force Court
State : Central
Year : 2007
A person subject to this Act who commits an offence of murder or culpable homicide not amounting to murder against, or of rape in relation to, a person not subject to this Act shall not be deemed to be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall not be tried by a Force Court, unless he commits any of the said offences-- (a) while on active duty; or (b) at any place outside India; or (c) at any place specified by the Central Government by notification, in this behalf. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : 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 : Punishment of Persons of or Below the Rank of Commandant Byinspector-general and Others
State : Central
Year : 2007
(1) An officer not below the rank of Inspector-General may, in the prescribed manner, proceed against an officer of or below the rank of Commandant who is charged with an offence under this Act and award one or more of the following punishments, namely:-- (a) forfeiture of seniority, or in the case of any of them whose promotion depends upon length of service, forfeiture of service for the purpose of promotion for a period not exceeding one year, but subject to the right of the accused previous to the award to elect to be tried by a Force Court; (b) severe reprimand or reprimand; (c) deduction from pay and allowances of any sum required to make good any proved loss or damage occasioned by the offence of which he is convicted. (2) An officer not below the rank of Additional..... 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 : 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 : Dissolution of a Force Court
State : Central
Year : 2007
(1) If a Force Court after the commencement of a trial is reduced below the minimum number of officers required by this Act, it shall be dissolved. (2) If, on account of the illness of the concerned Judge Attorney or, as the case may be, Deputy Judge Attorney-General or Additional Judge Attorney-General or of the accused before the finding, it is impossible to continue the trial, the Force Court shall be dissolved. (3) The authority or officer who convened a Force Court may dissolve the same if it appears to him that the exigencies of the service or necessities of discipline render it impossible or inexpedient to continue the said Force Court. (4) Where a Force Court is dissolved under this section, the accused may be tried again. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section