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The Nagaland Habitual offenders Act,1967

The Nagaland Habitual offenders Act, 1967

General196725 sections

The Nagaland Habitual Offenders Act, 1967 regulates the monitoring, movement restriction, and rehabilitation of repeat criminal offenders across Nagaland. It applies to individuals over eighteen years of age who have been convicted at least three times within a five-year period for specified serious offenses, such as theft, robbery, extortion, or human trafficking. The law allows authorities to officially register these offenders, collect their biometric details, track their residence changes, and restrict their movements to specific areas. Crucially, it empowers the government to place offenders in corrective settlements for reformative training. This law balances public safety with constructive rehabilitation to prevent reoffending.

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  1. 1. Short title, extent and commencement
  2. 2. Definition
  3. 3. Powers of State Government to direct registration of habitual offenders
  4. 4. Registration procedure
  5. 5. Charge of register and alteration therein
  6. 6. Power to take finger and palm impression, foot prints and photographs at any time
  7. 7. Registered offenders to notify change of residence and to report themselves
  8. 8. Migration of offender from one to another district
  9. 9. Duration of registration and re-registration of habitual offenders
  10. 10. Right to make representation etc.
  11. 11. Power to restrict movements of registered offenders
  12. 12. Power to cancel or alter restriction of movements
  13. 13. Corrective settlements
  14. 14. Power to direct habitual offender to receive corrective training
  15. 15. Power to transfer from corrective settlement
  16. 16. Penalty for failure to comply with certain provisions of the Act
  17. 17. Arrest of persons outside restriction area or corrective homes
  18. 18. Bar of Jurisdiction
  19. 19. Bar of legal proceedings
  20. 20. Power to delegate
  21. 21. Power to make rules
  22. 459. Grievous hurt caused whilst committing lurking house-trespass or house-breaking
  23. 460. All persons jointly concerned in a lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night punishable where death or grievous hurt caused by one of them
  24. Schedule. Offences under the Indian Penal Code
  25. II. Offence under the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, 1956

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