The Deputy Commissioner may, in order Power of Deputy

to ensure free and fair election, prohibit any fair Commissioner (including cattle fairs) or shandies in a panchayat to prohibit fairs area on the day of election to the Gram Panchayat etc. on election or such area. day.

134. (1) Any person who at a public meeting Disturbance at held in connection with an election under this Act, election meetings. acts or incites others to act, in a disorderly manner for the purpose of preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting was called shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.

1. (2) If any police officer reasonably suspects any person of committing an offence under sub - section (1), he may, if requested so to do by the Chairperson of the meeting require that person to declare to him immediately his name and address and. if that person refuses or fails to so declare his name and address, or if the police officer reasonably suspects him of giving a false name or address, the police officer may arrest him without warrant. 135. (1) No person shall print or publish, or Restrictions the cause to be printed or published any election printing of pamphlets, pamphlet or poster which does not bear on its face posters, etc. the names and addresses of the printer and the publisher thereof.
2. (2) No person shall print or cause to be printed any election pamphlet or poster,-
   • (a) unless a declaration as to the identity of the publisher thereof, signed by him and attested by two persons to whom he is personally known is delivered by him to the printer in duplicate ; and
   • (b) unless within a reasonable time after the printing of the documents one copy of the declaration is sent by the printer together with one copy of the document to the Deputy Commissioner.
3. (3) For the purposes of this section,-
   • (a) any process for multiplying copies of a document, other than copying it by hand, shall be deemed to be printing and the expression "printer’ shall be construed accordingly ; and
   • (b) election pamphlet or poster means any printed pamphlet, hand bill or other document distributed for the purpose of promoting or prejudicing the election of a candidate or group of candidates or any placard or poster having reference to an election but does not include any hand bill, placard or poster merely announcing the date, time, place and other particulars of an election meeting or routine instructions to election agents or workers .
4. (4) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall. on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine, which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both.