State · Jammu and Kashmir
Section 21 of The JAMMU AND KASHMIR KAHCHARAI ACT, 2011 (1954 A. D. )
- (1)If any Kahcharai officer or other person duly employed in the prevention of offences under this Act—
- (i)practises or attempts to practise any fraud or does any act for the purpose of injuring the Kahcharai revenue or abets or connives at any such fraud or any attempt to practise any such fraud or act ; or
- (ii)is guilty of a wilful contravention of any provision of this Act ; or (iii) requires any place or premises to be searched for taxable or prohibited animals or requires any person to be arrested, without having reasonable ground to believe that there are taxable or prohibited animals concealed about such place or premises or that such person is guilty of an offence under section 17 ; or
- (iv)vexatiously and unnecessarily delays forwarding any person arrested under this Act to nearest concerned authority ; or
- (v)wilfully or negligently causes any loss or damage to animals at any time while they remain or are lawfully detained at any Kahcharai post or elsewhere under his charge ; shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to a fine not exceeding Rs.1,000 or to both.
- (2)The punishment prescribed in sub-section (1) shall be in addition to any departmental punishment which a competent authority in the case may deem fit to award.