Chapter VI PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE

(1) If the trustee of any public trust or any cultivating tenant under any public trust refuses or willfully fails to furnish a return within the time specified in the notice under sub-section (1) of section 11 or within the further time, if any, allowed by the authorized officer under that sub-section, such trustee or cultivating tenant shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees. (2) If the trustee of any public trust or any cultivating tenant under any public trust, after having been convicted under sub-section (1), continues to refuse or to willfully fail to furnish the return, such trustee or cultivating tenant shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees for each day after the previous date of conviction during which such trustee or cultivating tenant continuous so to offend.

If the trustee of any public trust or any cultivating tenant under any public trust, who is under an obligation to furnish any return or information under this Act, furnishes a return or information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, such trustee or cultivating tenant shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.

If the trustee of any public trust, any cultivating tenant under any public trust or any other person contravenes any lawful order passed under this Act or obstructs any person from, lawfully taking possession of any land for the possession of which such person is entitled in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act or of any order passed thereunder, such trustee, cultivating tenant or other person shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.

(1) No Court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Act except on complaint in writing made by the authorized officer or any officer empowered by him by special order. (2) No Court inferior to that of a Presidency Magistrate or a Magistrate of the first class shall try any offence punishable under this Act.