The Chhattisgarh State Industrial Security Force Act, 2025

1.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Chhattisgarh State Industrial Security Force Act, 2025.
2. (2) It extends to whole State of Chhattisgarh.
3. (3) It shall come into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

1. (a) "Autonomous Body" means an institution acting independently or having the freedom to do so;
2. (b) "Cognizable Offence" has the meaning assigned to it in clause
3. (g) of Section 2 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (No. 46 of 2023);
4. (c) "Director General of Police" means the Director General of Police, Chhattisgarh;
5. (d) "Enrolled Member of the Force" means any subordinate officer, under officer or any other member of the Force of a rank not lower than that of an under officer;
6. (e) "Force" means the Chhattisgarh State Industrial Security Force constituted under Section 3;
7. (f) "Government" means the Government of Chhattisgarh;
8. (g) "Industrial Establishment" means any industrial undertaking or a company as defined under Section 3 of the Companies Act, 2013 (No. 18 of 2013) or a firm registered under Section 59 of the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 (No. 9 of 1932), which is engaged in any industry or in any trade, business or service;
9. (h) "Industrial Undertaking" means an undertaking pertaining to a scheduled industry and includes an undertaking engaged in any other industry or in any trade, business or service which may be regulated by law made by the Parliament or Legislature of the State;
   • (i) "Industrial Undertaking in Public Sector" means an industrial undertaking owned, controlled or managed by,-
   • (i) a Government company as defined in clause

1. (45) of Section 2 of the Companies Act, 2013 (No. 18 of 2013);
   • (ii) a corporation established by or under a State Act, which is controlled or managed by the Government.
   • (j) "Joint Venture" means a venture jointly undertaken by the State Government with a private industrial undertaking;
   • (k) "Managing Director" in relation to an industrial undertaking means, the person (whether called a Managing Agent, General Manager, Manager, Chief Executive Officer or by any other name) who exercises control over the affairs of that undertaking;
   • (l) "Member of the Force" means a person appointed to the Force under this Act;
   • (m) "Place of Deployment" means industrial establishments, industrial undertakings, private industrial undertakings or institutions, commercial and financial institutions, power generating stations, transmission and distribution company, refinery, places of religious importance, archaeological and heritage sites, airports and helipads, National or State Highways, Government buildings, metro network, autonomous bodies, Central and State institutions, strategic vital installations

3.

1. (1) There shall be constituted and maintained by the State Government an armed force to be called the Chhattisgarh State Industrial Security Force for the protection and security of place of deployment and to perform such other duties as may be entrusted to it by the State Government. The State Government or any officer authorised by the Government in this behalf,-
   • (a) may divide the State Industrial Security Force into teams,
   • (b) may divide each team into battalions, each battalion into companies, each company into platoons and the platoon into sections,
   • (c) may post any team, battalion, company, platoon or section at such places which may appear appropriate to the State Government or the Officer authorised by the State Government.
2. (2) The Force shall consist of such number of supervisory officers and enrolled members who shall receive such pay and other remuneration as may be prescribed: Provided that nothing in this sub-section apply to the pay, allowances and other service conditions of members of the Indian Police Service.
3. (3) The headquarters of the Force shall be at Nava Raipur, Atal Nagar or at such other place as may be specified by the Government, from time to time.

4.

1. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or the Chhattisgarh Vishesh Sashastra Bal Adhiniyam, 1968 (No. 29 of 1968) and the Chhattisgarh Police Act, 2007 (No. 13 of 2007), the State Government or the Director General of Police shall be competent to depute members of the Chhattisgarh Armed Force and Chhattisgarh Police Force appointed under the CG Vishesh Sashastra Bal Adhiniyam, 1968 (No. 29 of 1968) and the Chhattisgarh Police Act, 2007 (No. 13 of 2007) to the Chhattisgarh State Industrial Security Force, if he is authorised to do so by the State Government.
2. (2) The deputation of force in Chhattisgarh State Industrial Security Force will not be made in excess of the posts (setup) sanctioned by the State Government.
3. (3) Any member of the force can be repatriated to his/her parent unit without assigning any reasons.

5.

1. (1) Every enrolled member of the Force shall receive on his appointment a certificate in the form prescribed, under the seal and signature of the Director General of Police or such other supervisory officer as the Director General of Police may specify in this behalf and the person holding such certificate shall be vested with the powers of an enrolled member of the Force.
2. (2) Such certificate shall automatically expire whenever the person in whose favour it is issued, ceases for any reason, to be an enrolled member of the Force.

6.

1. (1) The Director General of Police shall be the principal administrative officer of the Force subject to overall control of the Government. He shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be prescribed.
2. (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), the administration of the Force within such local limits as may be prescribed, shall be carried on by the Special Director General of Police, Additional Director General of Police, Inspector General of Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Assistant Inspector General of Police or Commandant, Deputy Commandant and Assistant Commandant in accordance with the provisions of the Act and rules made thereunder and every supervisory officer placed in charge of the protection and security of places of deployment in the State, shall function on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed and shall subject to any direction that may be given by the Government or the Director General of Police in this behalf, discharge his functions in co-ordination with the authority in charge of such place of deployment.
3. (3) The State Government may appoint the Director General of Police and such other officers not below the rank of Assistant Commandant as supervisory officers who shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be prescribed.

7. It shall be the duty of every officer and member of the Force,-

1. (i) to obey and execute all orders lawfully issued to him by his superior officer;
2. (ii) to protect and safeguard the premises, their establishments and assets of the place of deployment and any installations attached thereto;
3. (iii) to protect and safeguard the employees and officers of the place of deployment as referred to in clause (ii);
4. (iv) to do any other act conducive to the protection

1. (1) Subject to any general direction of the Government and the recovery of charges of the force on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed, it shall be lawful for the Director General of Police on a request received in this behalf from the authority in charge of the place of deployment showing the necessity thereof, to deploy such number of the members of the Force as the Director General of Police may consider necessary for the protection and security thereof and any installations attached thereto and the member of the Force so deployed shall be under the charge of such officer or authority as specified by the Director General of Police or any other officer on his behalf: Provided that in the case of an establishment, institution, autonomous body, undertaking, strategic or vital installation controlled or managed by a Company in which the State Government does not have an interest, no such request shall be considered without the approval of the Government.
2. (2) If the Director General of Police is of the opinion that the circumstances necessitating the deployment of the members of the Force in relation to any place of deployment under sub-section
3. (1) have ceased to exist, he may, by giving one month's prior notice to the concerned undertaking, recall the members of the Force so deployed.
4. (3) Every member of the Force while discharging his functions during the period of deployment in an establishment, institution, autonomous body, undertaking, strategic or vital installation controlled or managed by a Company in which the Government does not have an interest, shall exercise the same powers and be subject to the same respons

9.

1. (1) Any member of the Force may without a warrant, arrest any person,-
   • (i) who voluntarily causes hurt or attempts to voluntarily cause hurt, or wrongfully restrains or attempts to wrongfully restrain or assaults, or threatens to assault, or uses, or threatens or attempts to use criminal force to any employee or officer referred to in clause
   • (iv) of Section 7, or to him or any other member of the Force in discharge of his duty as such employee or in execution of his duty as such member, as the case may be or with intent to prevent or to deter him from discharging his duty as such member or in consequence of anything done or attempted to be done by him in the lawful discharge of his duty as such member;
   • (ii) who has been concerned in, or against whom a reasonable suspicion exists of his having been concerned in commission of a cognizable offence or who is found taking precautions to conceal his presence under circumstances which afford reason to believe that he is taking such precautions with a view to committing a cognizable offence which relates to property belonging to, or existing in the place of deployment;
   • (iii) who commits or attempts to commit a cognizable offence which involves or which is likely to involve danger to the life of any person engaged in carrying on any work relating to the place of deployment.
2. (2) If any person is found trespassing on the premises of the place of deployment he may, without prejudice to any other proceedings which may be taken against him, be removed from such premises by any member of the Force.

10.

1. (1) Whenever any member of the Force, has reason to believe that any such offence as is referred to in Section 9 has been or is being committed in the place of deployment and that a search warrant cannot be obtained without affording the offender an opportunity of escaping or concealing evidence of the offence, he may detain the offender and search person and his belongings forthwith and if he thinks proper, arrest any person whom he has reason to believe to have committed the offence.
2. (2) The provisions of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (No. 46 of 2023) relating to searches shall apply to searches under this Section.

Any member of the Force making an arrest under this Act immediately take over the person so arrested to a police officer and in the absence of a police officer, take such person or cause him to be taken to the nearest police station together with a report of the circumstances occasioning the arrest. Section 58 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (No. 46 of 2023) will apply to such arrest.

1. (1) Subject to any general direction which may be issued by the Government, it shall be lawful for the Director General of Police on a request received from the Managing Director of any industrial establishment in the private sector or any other person authorized by him in this behalf, to direct the members of the Force to provide security related technical consultancy services, to such industrial establishment in such manner and on payment of such fee as may be prescribed.
2. (2) The fee received under sub-section
3. (1) shall be credited to the Consolidated Fund in such manner as may be prescribed.

Every member of the Chhattisgarh State Industrial Security Force shall upon his appointment and as long as he continues to be a member thereof, be deemed to be a police officer and subject to any terms, conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed, to have and be subject to, in so far as they are not inconsistent with any provision of this Act or any rules made thereunder, all the privileges and protection and all the liabilities, penalties and punishments as a police officer duly enrolled is by virtue of the Chhattisgarh Police Act, 2007 (No. 13 of 2007), or any other law for the time being in force while discharging or purporting to discharge his duties under this Act and the rules made thereunder.

No suit or proceeding shall be entertained by any Court against the Force or against any officer or member thereof or against any person acting under the order or direction of the Force or any officer or member thereof for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or any rules made thereunder.

No court shall take cognizance of an offence against any member of the Force with regard to any act done by him while discharging or purporting to act in the discharge of his duty except with the prior sanction of the Government.

16.

1. (1) Every member of the Force shall be considered to be always on duty and shall, at any time, be liable to be employed at any place within the State of Chhattisgarh and outside also.
2. (2) No member of the Force shall engage himself in any employment or office other than his duties under this Act.
3. (3) Sub-section (1),
4. (2) and
5. (3) of Section 22 of the Chhattisgarh Police Act, 2007 (No. 13 of 2007) shall not apply to the members of the Chhattisgarh State Industrial Security Force.

17. Subject to the provisions of Article 311 of the Constitution and to such rules as the State Government may make under this Act, supervisory officer may,-

1. (i) award any one or more of the following punishments to any enrolled member of the Force who discharges his duty in a careless or negligent manner, or who by any act of his own renders himself unfit for the discharge thereof, namely:-

1. (a) fine, which may extend to any amount not exceeding seven days' pay or reduction in pay: Provided that the supervisory officer may, for special reasons to be recorded in writing, impose a fine exceeding seven days' pay;
2. (b) drill, extra guard, fatigue or other duty;
3. (c) removal from any office of distinction or deprivation of any special emolument;
4. (d) withholding of increment without cumulative effect;
5. (e) withholding of promotion;
6. (f) censure. any enrolled member of the Force aggrieved by an order made under clause
   • (i) of this section may, within thirty days from the date on which the order is communicated to him, prefer an appeal against the order to such authority as may be prescribed. In disposing of an appeal, the prescribed authority shall follow such procedure as may be prescribed: Provided that the prescribed authority may entertain the appeal after the expiry of the said period of thirty days, if it is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from filing the appeal in time.

18.

1. (1) No member of the Force shall without the prior sanction in writing of the Government or of the prescribed authority,-
   • (a) be a member of, or be associated in any way with any trade union, labour union, political party or with any association or confederation of trade unions, labour unions or political parties; or
   • (b) be a member of, or be associated in any way with, any other society, institution, association or organization that is not recognized as part of the Force or is not of a purely social, recreational or religious nature; or Explanation.- If any question arises as to whether any society, institution, association or organization is of purely social, recreational or religious nature under clause
   • (b) of this sub-section, the decision of the Government thereon shall be final.
   • (c) communicate with the press or publish or cause to be published any book, letter or other document except where such communication or publication is in the bonafide discharge of his duties or is of a purely literary, artistic or scientific character.
2. (2) No member of the Force shall participate in or address, any meeting or take part in any demonstration for any political purpose.

19. A member of the Force shall not by reason of his suspension from office, cease to be a member of the Force and he shall, during that period, be subject to the same responsibilities, discipline and penalties as he would have been, if he was on duty.

20.

1. (1) Every person who for any reason ceases to be an enrolled member of the Force, shall forthwith surrender to any supervisory officer empowered to receive the same, his certificate of appointment, the arms, accoutrements, clothing and other articles which had been furnished to him for the performance of his duties as an enrolled member of the Force.
2. (2) Any person who wilfully neglects or refuses to surrender the articles as required by sub-section
3. (1) shall be liable for forfeiture of financial benefits and prosecution under the law.
4. (3) Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to apply to any article which under the orders of the Director General of Police, has become the property of the person to whom the same was furnished.

21. The Police (Incitement to Disaffection) Act, 1922 (No. 22 of 1922) shall apply to members of the Force as it applies to members of the Police Force.

22.

Certain Acts not to apply to the members of the Force 23. Nothing contained in the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (No. 4 of 1936) or the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (No. 14 of 1947) or the Factories Act, 1948 (No. 63 of 1948), except the provisions thereof relating to health and safety, shall apply to members of the Force.

24.

1. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
2. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, such rules may provide for,-
   • (a) regulating the classes, ranks, grades, insignia, pay and remuneration of members of the Force and their conditions of service;
   • (b) regulating the powers and duties of members of the Force authorized to exercise any function by or under this Act;
   • (c) fixing the period of service for members of the Force;
   • (d) prescribing the description and quantity of arms, accoutrements, clothing and other necessary articles to be furnished to the members of the Force;
   • (e) prescribing the places of residence of members of the Force;
   • (f) institution, management and regulation of any fund for any purpose connected with the administration of the Force;
   • (g) regulating the punishments and prescribing authorities to whom appeals may be preferred from orders of punishment, or remission of fines or other punishments and the procedure to be followed for the disposal of such appeals;
   • (h) the terms and conditions subject to which members of the Force may be deployed under Section 8 and the charges therefore;
     • (i) prescribing the guidelines for use of fire arms;
   • (j) prescribing the norms to maintain relationship with hiring institutions.
3. (3) Every rule made under this Section shall, as soon as may be after it is made, be laid before the Legislative Assembly of the State.

25. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the State Government may, by order not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, remove the difficulty: Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of a period of two years from the date of commencement of this Act.