Amendment of Section 34.

(1) In Section 34 of the Police Act, 1861 (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Act), for the words “not exceeding fifty rupees, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding eight days, “the words” not exceeding five hundred rupees, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding three months for an offence under clause Sixty and to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding eight days for the rest of the offence” shall be substituted. (2) After clause Eight of Section 34 of the Principal Act, the following proviso shall be added, namely :— “Provided that notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, an offence under clause Sixth shall be non-bailable.”