(1) All sums paid to police officers for service of warrants and the sum which by law a police officer, is entitled to receive for intelligence shall, when the intelligence is communicated by him, be credited to the General Police Fund.
(2) The Government may, by general or special order, determine the amount which may be given out of the said amount as a reward to the officer concerned.
Penalty for violating provisions contained in sections 23, 24 and 25.
Saving of general authority of District Magistrate.
Cognizance of cases against Police officers.
Power to punish under other laws.
Amounts received by Police officers for service of warrants or furnishing intelligence shall be credited to General Police Fund.
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31. When a civil suit or prosecution may be lawfully instituted for any act done or intended to be done by a person under the provisions of this Act, or under other general powers of the Police conferred by this Act, such suit or prosecution shall be instituted within three months after the act shaII have been done and not otherwise. The notice in writing of such civil suit and of the cause thereof shall be given to the defendant or to the Superintendent of Police or the Assistant Superintendent of Police of the district within whose jurisdiction the act was committed, one month atleast before the institution of the suit.
No damage shall be allowed to a plaintiff in any such civil suit, if sufficient amends have been made before instituting the suit, or if a sufficient sum for damages has been paid into Court by the defendant or any other person on his behalf after the institution of the suit; and if a decree is given in favour of the plantiff in such suit, the defendant shall not be made to pay the cash, unless the Judge, who had tried the case, deems fit to have the costs paid for having reasonably instituted the suit:
Provided that a suit shall not lie in a Civil Court when the prosecution has been brought against the officer for the same act in a Criminal Court.
32. When any civil suit or prosecution against a police officer has been instituted for any act done by him in the capacity of a police officer, he may plead that such act was done by him in pursuance of a warrant issued by a Magistrate. Such plea shall be proved by the production of the warrant directing to do such act and puporting to be signed by such Magistrate. The defendant shall, on the production of such warrant, be entitled to receive a decree in his favour notwithstanding a defect of jurisdiction in such Magistrate. No proof of the signature of such Magistrate Limitation to institution of civil suit or prosecution.
Plea for act done under warrant.
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shall be necessary unless the Court has reason to doubt its being genuine:
Provided that nothing contained in this section shall effect the remedy of the plaintiff which he may have against the authority issuing the warrant.