Indemnity for acts done under the Act

(1) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie in any Court against any officer or servant of the State Government or any person acting under his direction or aiding or assisting him- (a) for, or on account of, or in respect of, any sentence passed, or any act ordered or done by him in exercise of any jurisdiction or power purporting to have been conferred on him by or under the said Act or the said Act as amended by Madras Act I of 1949 or the said Act as applied to the Pudukottai State under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1947, or (b) for carrying out any sentence passed by any Court in exercise of any such jurisdiction or power as aforesaid. (2) No suit or other legal proceeding shall lie against the State Government for, or on account of, or in respect of, any act, matter or thing whatsoever, purporting to have been done in pursuance of or under the said Act or the said Act as amended as aforesaid or the said Act as applied to the State aforesaid.