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The Telangana Prevention of Begging Act, 1977

The Telangana Prevention of Begging Act, 1977

General197730 sections

This legislation criminalizes soliciting or receiving alms in public places across the State of Telangana. It applies to individuals found begging, people who force or employ children and others to beg, and state officials responsible for enforcement. Authorised officers can arrest suspected beggars without a warrant for court evaluation, medical examination, and potential detention in state-run workhouses, special homes, or care institutions depending on their age and health. The law matters because it establishes legal sanctions and rehabilitative detention mechanisms aimed at eradicating public begging, while creating severe penalties for organised begging syndicates and child exploitation.

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  1. 1. Short title, extent and commencement
  2. 2. Definitions
  3. 3. Begging in public place an offence
  4. 4. Power to produce the person found begging before a court
  5. 5. Summary inquiry by the court in respect of persons found begging and produced before it
  6. 6. Orders of the court on completion of inquiry in regard to person produced before it under section 4.
  7. 7. Order of court in regard to beggar who is a child.
  8. 8. Court’s finding regarding age to be final.
  9. 9. Court may order detention of persons wholly dependent on.
  10. 10. Seizure and disposal of animals exposed or exhibited for extorting alms.
  11. 11. Provisions of Certified Institutions.
  12. 14. Appointment of Chief Inspector and Assistant Inspectors.
  13. 15. Mode of securing admission to certified institutions, etc.
  14. 16. Procedure on detention or sentence of imprisonment.
  15. 17. Search of beggar received in certified Institutions and disposal of property of beggar.
  16. 18. Management and discipline.
  17. 19. Disciplinary imprisonment.
  18. 22. Revocation of licence.
  19. 23. Power to release.
  20. 24. Arrest of person escaping from certified institution.
  21. 25. Transfers between certified institution and institution of like nature in different parts in India.
  22. 26. Power to take finger prints.
  23. 27. Penalty for begging.
  24. 28. Penalty for employing or causing persons to beg or using them for purposes of begging.
  25. 29. Penalty for refusing to give finger prints.
  26. 30. Certain offences to be cognizable and non-bailable.
  27. 31. Persons to be deemed public servants.
  28. 32. Detention to be deemed imprisonment for purposes of appeal and revision.
  29. 33. Power to make rules.
  30. 34. Repeal and saving.

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