section 20
Penalties
The Bobbili and Seethanagaram (Acquisition and Transfer of Sugar Undertakings) Act, 1986General198625 sections
Statutory text
- (1) Any person who,—
- (a) having in his possession, custody or control any property, asset, book of account, register or other document forming part of or relating to the sugar undertakings vested in the Corporation under section 3, withholds it from the Collector in contravention of the provisions of section 6; or
- (b) wrongfully obtains possession of, or retains, any such property, asset, book of account, register or other document;
- (c) conceals, removes or destroys any such property or mutilates or defaces any book of account, register or other document with intent to evade the provisions of section 6;
- (d) prefers any claim which he knows or has reason to belive to be false or grossly inaccurate;
- (e) wilfully withholds or fails to furnish any particulars as required by section 7, or
- (f) furnishes, in compliance with the requirements of section 7, particulars which are false and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not belive to be true; shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine or with both.
- (2) Any court trying any offence under clause(a) or clause
- (b) of sub-section
- (1) may, at the time of convicting the accused person, order him to deliver up within a time to be fixed by it any property, asset, book of account, register or other document wrongfully obtained or wilfully with held.
- (3) No Court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under this section except with the previous sanction of the Government or of an officer authorised by them in that behalf.
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