Provided that no person shall be punished twice for the same offence.

Power to compound offences Power to compound offences. —

1. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, empower any Game Officer to accept from any person against whom a reasonable suspicion exists that he has committed any offence against this Act, other than an offence specified in Section 15, a sum of money by way of composition for the offence which such person is suspected to have committed.
2. (2) On payment of such sum of money to such officer, the suspected person if in custody, shall be discharged and no further proceedings shall be taken against him in regard to the offence so compounded.