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The Armed Police Battalions Ordinance, 1979

( Ordinance NO. XXV OF 1979 )

Offences triable by Summary Court, etc.
9. (1) An officer or an Armed Policeman who-
 
 
 
 
(a) is in a state of intoxication when on or detailed for any duty, or on parade, or on the line march; or
 
 
 
 
(b) strikes, or forces or attempts to force, any sentry; or
 
 
 
 
(c) being in command of a guard, post or patrol, refuses to receive any prisoner duly committed to his charge, or, whether in such command or not, releases any prisoner without proper authority or negligently suffers any prisoners to escape; or
 
 
 
 
(d) being deputed to any guard, post or patrol, quits it without being regularly relieved or without leave; or
 
 
 
 
(e) being in command of a guard, post or patrol, permits gambling or other behaviour prejudicial to good order and discipline; or
 
 
 
 
(f) being under arrest or in confinement, leaves his arrest or confinement before he is set at liberty by proper authority; or
 
 
 
 
(g) is grossly insubordinate or insolent to his superior officer in the execution of his office; or
 
 
 
 
(h) refuses to superintend or assist in the making of any field work or other police work of any description ordered to be made either in headquarters or in the field; or
 
 
 
 
(i) strikes or otherwise misbehaves with a subordinate officer or an Armed Policeman; or
 
 
 
 
(j) being in command at any post or on the march and receiving a complaint that any one under his command has beaten or otherwise maltreated or oppressed any person, or has committed any riot or trespass, fails, on proof of the truth of the complaint, to have due reparation made as far as possible to the injured person and to report the case to the proper authority; or
 
 
 
 
(k) designedly, or through neglect, injures or loses or fraudulently or without due authority disposes of his arms, clothes, tools, equipment, ammunition, accoutrements, any means of transport or other necessaries or any such articles entrusted to him or belonging to any other person; or
 
 
(l) malingers, feigns or produces disease or infirmity in himself, or intentionally delays his cure or aggravates his disease or infirmity; or
 
 
 
 
(m) with intent to render himself or any other person unfit for service, voluntarily causes hurt to himself or any other person; or
 
 
 
 
(n) commits extortion, or without proper authority extracts from any person carriage, porterage or provisions; or
 
 
 
 
(o) designedly, or through neglect, kills, injures, makes away with or ill-treats or loses his horse or any animal used in the public service; or
 
 
 
 
(p) disobeys the lawful command of his officer; or
 
 
 
 
(q) plunders, destroys or damages any property of any kind; or
 
 
 
 
(r) being a sentry, sleeps at his post or quits it without being regularly relieved or without leave; or
 
 
 
 
(s) designedly or through neglect fails to apprehend an offender; or
 
 
 
 
(t) designedly or through neglect fails to perform his duties; or
 
 
 
 
(u) neglects to obey Battalion orders or company orders or any other orders or rules made under this Ordinance or commits any act or omission prejudicial to good order and discipline;
 
 
 
 
shall, on conviction by a Summary Court, be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years.
 
 
 
 
(2) A Summary Court may take cognizance of an offence punishable under this section either of its own motion or on complaint by any person and shall follow such procedure as may be prescribed.
 
 
 
 
(3) Any person aggrieved by a judgment of a Summary Court may prefer an appeal,-
 
 
 
 
(a) in the case of a superior officer, to the Government; and
 
 
 
 
(b) in the case of a subordinate officer or an Armed Policeman, to the Inspector General of Police.

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