(1) The District Superintendent of Police or any Police Officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector, authorized in this behalf by the District Superintendent of Police, may stop any assembly or procession which violates the conditions set under sub-sections (I),
(2) and (3) of Section 90 and order such assembly or procession to disperse.
Any assembly or procession which neglects or refuses to obey any order given under sub-section (I) above shall be deemed to be an “unlawful assembly” under Chapter V1H of the Indian Penal Code,
1860.
Regulation o f the use of music and other sound systems in public places
92. The District Superintendent or any officer not below the rank of Assistarit'Dcputy Superintendent of Police may regulate the time and the volume at which music and other sound systems are used in connection with any performances and other activities in or near streets or any public place that cause annoyance to the residents of the neighborhood.
THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, AUGUST 31, 2007 1903 ^e^o'Xron The ^ s tric t Superintendent of Police or any other Police Officer pubhc roads" authorized by him in this behalf, through a general or special order, may give reasonable directions to die public to keep order on public roads and streets, thoroughfares, or any public place, in order to prevent obstruction, injury, or annoyance to passers by or pollution.
(2) The District Superintendent of Police may issue general directions under sub-section (1), in respect of the whole district or any part thereof, as per procedure bid down in Section 104.
Penalty 9 4 .
for disobeying orders or directions Power to reserve 9 5 .( 1) public places and erect barriers
(2)(a)
(b)
(c) Any person not obeying the lawful orders issued under section 90,91 and 93 may be arrested and on conviction by a Court Law, shall be liable to a fine which max be extended upto rupees two thousand.
The District Superintendent of Polk • may, by public notice, temporarily reserve for any public pr pose any street or other place, and prohibit the public from filtering the area so reserved, except on such conditions ;r ,»y be specified.
The District Superintend'i < of Police may authorize any police officer to erect barrier:, and other necessary structures on public roads and streets, to check vehicles or occupants there of for violation of any legal previsions by them.
In making such order, the District Superintendent of Police shall prescribe the necessary steps for ensuring the safety of passers-by.
These temporary structures shall be removed once the purpose for which they were installed is over.
Saving and control o f the Magistrate o f the District Refusal to deliver up certificate etc.
on ceasing to be police officers 9 6 . Nothing in the preceding sections namely section 90,91,92,93 and 95 shall deem to interfere with the general control of the Magistrate of the District over the matters referred to therein.
97. Whoever, having ceased to be a police officer, docs not forthwith deliver up his/her certific He of appointment, clothing, accoutrements and Greer wherewithal supplied to him for the execution of his duty, shall on conviction by a competent Court of Law, be liable to a fine which may extend to two thousand rupees Dereliction o f duty 9 8 . Whoever, being t» police officer by a police officer
(a) willfully breaches or neglects to follow any legal provision, procedure, rules, regulations applicable to members of the Police Service; or
(b) without lawful reason, fails to register a First Information Report as required by Section 154 of the ( ’ode of Criminal Procedure. 1973; or
(c) is found m a state of intoxication, while on duty; or 1904 THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, AUGUST 31, 2007
(d) malingers or feigns illness or injury or voluntarily causes hurt to himself with a view to evading duty; or
(e) uses criminal force against another police officer, or indulges in gross insubordination;
shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with a fine which may extend upto two thousand rupees or with both Arrest, search, seizure and violence Offences by the public
99. Whoever, being a police officer ,-
(1) without lawful authority or reasonable cause enters or searches, or causes to be entered or searched, any building, vessel, tent or place; or
(2) unlawfully and without reasonable cause seizes the property o f any person; or
(3) unlawfully and without reasonable cause detains, searches, or arrests a person; or
(4) unlawfully and without reasonable cause delays the forwarding of any person arrested to a Magistrate or to any other authority to whom he is legally bound to forward such person; or
(5) subjects any person in her/his custody or with whom he may come into contact in the course o f duty, to torture or to any kind of inhuman or unlawful personal violence or gross misbehaviour; or
(6) holds out any threat or promise not warranted by law;
shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or shall be liable to fine not exceeding two thousand rupees or with both.