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THE CHITTAGONG HILL-TRACTS FRONTIER POLICE REGULATION, 1881

( REGULATION III OF 1881)

More heinous offences

3. Any person subject to this Regulation, not being above the rank of Subadar, who-

(a) begins, excites, causes or joins in any mutiny or sedition, or, being present at any mutiny or sedition, does not use his utmost endeavour to suppress the same, or, knowing or having reason to believe in the existence of any mutiny, or of any intention to mutiny, does not without delay give information thereof to his commanding or other superior officer; or

(b) uses or attempts to use, criminal force to, or commits an assault on, his superior officer, whether on or off duty, under any circumstances in which the superior officer is distinguishable as such in any manner; or

(c) shamefully abandons or delivers up any garrison, fortress, post or guard committed to his charge or which it is his duty to defend; or

(d) directly or indirectly holds correspondence with, or assists or relieves, any persons in arms against the State, or omits to discover immediately to his commanding or other superior officer any such correspondence coming to his knowledge; and

any such person who, while on active service,-

(e) disobeys the lawful command of his superior officer; or

(f) deserts the service; or

(g) being a sentry, sleeps upon his post, or quits it without being regularly relieved or without leave; or

(h) without authority, leaves his commanding officers, or his post or party, to go in search of plunder; or

(i) quits his guard, piquet party or patrol without being regularly relieved or without leave; or

(j) uses criminal force to, or commits an assault on, any person bringing provisions or other necessaries to camp or quarters, or forces a safeguard, or without authority breaks into any house or any other place, for plunder, or plunders, destroys or damages any field, garden or other property of any kind; or

(k) intentionally causes or spreads a false alarm in action, camp, garrison or quarters,

shall be punished with transportation for life or for a term of not less than seven years, or with imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term which may extend to fourteen years.


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