(1) No person shall do any act with intent to injuriously affect, whether by impairing the efficiency or impeding the working of anything or in any other manner whatsoever, or to cause damage to— 9 of 189°- Beag. Act 7 of 1923.
22 of 1934.
13 of 1885.
Sabotage
(a) any building, vehicle, machinery, apparatus or other property used or intended to be used, for the purposes of Government or of any local authority;
(b) any railway as defined in the Indian Railways Act, 1890, aerial ropeway as denned in the Bengal Aerial Ropeways Act, 1923, road, canal, canal embankments, protective bunds, sluicegates, lock-gates, bridge, culvert, causeway, aerodrome as denned in the Indian Aircraft Act, 1934, air-field, air-strip or any installation thereon or any telegraph line or post as denned in the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885;
(c) any rolling-stock of a railway or aircraft;
(d) any building or other property used in connection with the production, distribution or supply of any essential commodity, any sewage works, mine or factory;
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(e) any prohibited place as defined in clause (8) of section 2 of the Indian Official Secrets Act, 1923. 19 of 1923.
(2) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall apply in relation to any omission on the part of a person to do anything which he is under a duty imposed on him by any law or an order of any competent authority to do, as they apply to the doing of any act by a person,
(3) If any person contravenes any provision of this section, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term wlilch may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.
Penalty for subversive acts.
7. If any person commits any subversive act, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both.
Punishment for carrying or possessing arms, etc., in suspicious cjrcumB- tances.
8. Any person who carries on his person or knowingly has in his possession or under his control any arms, ammunition or military stores as denned in the Indian Arms Act, 1878, or any corrosive substance, in such manner or under such circumstances as to give rise to a reasonable suspicion that he does not carry any such article or substance on his person or have it in his possession or under his control for a lawful object, shall, unless he can show that he was carrying it on his person or that he had it in his possession or under his control for a lawful object, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years, to which fine may be added.
n of 1871.
Definition of looting.
9. Whoever commits dacoity, robbery, theft, or theft in a building or vehicle or criminal misappropriation, if the commission of such offence takes place—
(a) during a riot or any disturbance of the public peace at or in the neighbourhood of the riot, or the place at which such disturbance of the public peace occurs, or
(b) in any area in which a riot or disturbance of the public peace has occurred and before law and order has been completely restored in such area, or
(c) in circumstances such that a person whose property is stolen or criminally misappropriated is not, as a consequence of rioting or any other disturbance of the public peace, present or able to protect such property, is said to commit the act of looting.
Use offeree to stop looting.
10. Any police officer or any other person authorised in this behalf by the Governor may use such force as may be necessary even to the causing of death in order to stop the commission of the act of looting within his view.
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11. (I) For the maintenance of public order or on grounds of public security or for the prevention of smuggling, the Deputy Commissioner may, subject to the control of the Governor, by order direct that, subject to any exemption specified in the order, no person present within any area or areas specified in the order shall, between such hours as may be specified in the order, be out of doors except under the authority of a written permit granted by a specified authority or person.
(2) If any person contravenes any order made under this section, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
(3) Any police officer may arrest without warrant any person who is reasonably suspected of having committed, or of committing, a contravention of any order made under sub-section (1).
Curfew.