On conviction under sections 78, 79 and 80 instruments of gaming may be destroyed

On conviction of any person under sections 78, 79 or 80 the convicting Magistrate may order all the instruments of gaming found in the building, room, tent, enclosure, vehicle, vessel or place or on the persons of those who were found therein, to be forthwith destroyed or forfeited to the Government, and may also order all or any of the securities for money and other articles seized, not being instruments of gaming, to be sold and the proceeds thereof, with all moneys seized therein, to be forfeited to the Government. (a) contravenes the provisions of section 28; or (b) is guilty of cowardice; or (c) resigns his office or withdraws himself from the duties thereof in contravention of section 27; or (d) is guilty of any wilful breach, or neglect of any provision of law or of any rule or order which, as such Police Officer, it is his duty to observe or obey, or (e) is guilty of any violation of duty for which no punishment is expressly provided by any other law in force, shall, on conviction be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to Rs. 100, or with both. (2) A Police Officer who, being absent on leave, fails, without reasonable cause, to report himself for duty on the expiration of such leave, shall, for the purposes of sub-clause (c) of clause (ii) of sub-section (1) be deemed to withdraw himself from the duties of his office within the meaning of section 27.