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Section 24: Insubordination and obstruction.

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force Act, 1992Central Act · Act 35 of 1992

Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,—

(a) being concerned in any quarrel, affray or disorder, refuses to obey any officer, though of inferior rank, who orders him into arrest, or uses criminal force to, or assaults, any such officer; or

(b) uses criminal force to, or assaults, any person, whether subject to this Act or not, in whose custody he is lawfully placed, and whether he is or is not his superior officer; or

(c) resists an escort whose duty it is to apprehend him or to have him in charge; or

(d) breaks out of barracks, camp or quarters; or

(e) neglects to obey any general, local or other order; or

(f) impedes the Force Police referred to in section 75 or any person lawfully acting on his behalf, or when called upon, refuses to assist in the execution of his duty a Force Police or any person lawfully acting on his behalf,

shall, on conviction by a Force Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend, in the case of the offences specified in clauses (d) and (e), to two years, and in the case of the offences specified in the other clauses, to ten years, or in either case such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force Act, 1992
Section24
Marginal noteInsubordination and obstruction.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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