Judicial Magistrate, or Metropolitan Magistrate who after summary trial may convict him and sentence him to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months.

Abettors to be punished with imprisonment or fine or both.- Whoever employs any person to beg or abets such employment, shall be punished on conviction by a magistrate with simple or rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine, which may extend to three hundred rupees or with both.