(1) The State Government may, for the purpose of preventing or suppressing subversive acts, by order addressed to a printer, publisher or editor, or to printers, publishers and editors generally,—
(a) require that all matters, or any matter relating to a particular subject or class of subjects, shall, before being published. in any document or class of documents, -be submitted for scrutiny to- an authority specified in the order;
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1931.
The West Bengal Security Act, 1950. 9 XIX of 1950.]
(Chapter IV.—Public Safety and Order.— Sections 14, 15.)
(b) prohibit or regulate the making or publishing of any document or class of documents, or of any matter relating to a particular subject or class of subjects, or the use of any press, as defined in the Indian Press (Emergency Powers) Act, 1931.
(2) If any person contravenes any order made under subsection (1), then, without prejudice to any other proceedings which may be taken against such person, the State Government may declare to be forfeited to the State every copy of any document published or made in contravention of such order and any press, as defined in the Indian Press (Emergency Powers) Act, 1931, used in the making of such document.
(3) If any person contravenes any order made under this section, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years or with fine or with both.
Explanation.—In this Chapter "document" includes gramophone records, sound tracks and any other articles on which sounds have been recorded with a view to their subsequent reproduction.
CHAPTER IV.
PUBLIC SAFETY AND ORDER.
14. Any person who carries on his person or kno'Wingly has in his possession or under his control any corrosive substance or liquid, under such circumstances as to give rise to a reasonable suspicion that he does not carry it 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 seven years, to which fine may be added.
15. Whoever commits . dacoity, robbery, theft, or theft in a building, vessel 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 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 'offence of looting.
(c) Punishment for carrying or possessing any corrosive substance or liquid.
Definition of looting.
Use of force to stop looting.
Curfew.
10 The West Bengal Security Act, 1950.
[West Ben. Aot (Chapter IV .—Public Safety and Order.— Sections 16-20.)
16. Any police officer may use such force as may be necessary even to the causing of death in order to stop the commission of the offence of looting within his view.