80. Disregarding the rules of the road.—No person shall—
(a) when driving a vehicle along a street (except in cases of actual necessity or of some other
sufficient reason for deviation) fail to keep on the left side of such street and when passing any other
vehicle proceeding in the same direction fail to keep on the right side of such vehicle; or
(b) leave in any street or public place insufficiently tended or secured any animal or vehicle.
81. Causing obstruction or mischief by animal.—No person shall cause obstruction, damage,
injury, danger, alarm or mischief in any street or public place—
(i) by misbehaviour, negligence or ill-usage in the driving, management, treatment or care of any
animal or vehicle; or
(ii) by driving any vehicle or animal laden with timber, poles or other unwieldy articles through a
street or public place contrary to any regulation made in that behalf.
82. Exposing animal for hire, sale, etc.—No person shall in any street or public place expose for
hire or sale any animal or vehicle, clean any furniture or vehicle, or clean or groom any horse or other
animal except at such times and places as the competent authority permits, or shall train or break in any
horse or other animal or make any vehicle or any part of a vehicle or (except when as a result of any
accident repairing on the spot is unavoidable) repair any vehicle or part of a vehicle, or carry on therein
any manufacture or operation so as to be a serious impediment to traffic or serious annoyance to residents
in the vicinity or to the public.
83. Causing any obstruction in a street.—No person shall cause obstruction in any street or
public place—
(a) by allowing any animal or vehicle, which has to be loaded or unloaded, or take up or set down
passengers, to remain or stand in the street or the public place longer than may be necessary for such
purpose; or
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(b) by leaving any vehicle standing or fastening any cattle in the street or the public place; or
(c) by using any part of a street or public place as a halting place for vehicles or cattle; or
(d) by leaving any box, bale, package or other things whatsoever in or upon a street for an
unreasonable length of time or contrary to any regulation; or
(e) by exposing anything for sale or setting out anything for sale in or upon any stall, booth,
board, cask, basket or in any other way whatsoever.
84. Obstructing a footway.—No person shall drive, ride, load, propel or leave on any footway any
animal or vehicle other than a perambulator or fasten any animal in such a way that the animal can stand
across or upon such footway.
85. Causing obstruction and annoyance by performances, etc.—No person shall, in contravention
of any regulation made by the Commissioner of Police,—
(a) exhibit any mimetic, musical or other performances of such a nature as may attract crowds; or
(b) carry or place bulky advertisements, pictures, figures or emblems in any street or public place,
whereby any obstruction to passengers or annoyance to the residents in the vicinity may be occasioned.
86. Doing offensive acts in or near a street or public place.—No person shall slaughter any animal,
clean a carcass or hide, or bathe or wash his person in or near to and within sight of a street or public
place, except at a place set apart for the purpose, so as to cause annoyance to the neighbouring residents
or to passers-by.
87. Letting loose horse, etc., and suffering ferocious dogs to be at large.—No person shall in any
street or public place—
(a) negligently let loose any horse or other animal, so as to cause danger, injury, alarm or
annoyance; or
(b) suffer a ferocious dog to be at large without a muzzle; or
(c) set on or urge a dog or other animal to attack, worry or put in fear any person or horse or other
animal.
88. Bathing or washing in places not set apart for those purposes.—No person shall bathe or wash
in, or by the side of, a public well, tank or reservoir not set apart for such purpose by order of the
competent authority, or in, or by the side of, any pond, pool, aqueduct, part of a river, stream, nullah or
other source or means of water supply in which such bathing or washing is forbidden by order of the
competent authority.
89. Defiling water in public wells, etc.—No person shall defile or cause to be defiled the water in
any public well, tank, reservoir, pond, pool, aqueduct or part of a river, stream, nullah or other source or
means of water supply, so as to render the same less fit for any purpose for which it is set apart by the
order of the competent authority.
90. Obstructing bathers.—No person shall obstruct or incommode a person bathing at a place set
apart for the purpose by the order of the competent authority under section 88 by wilful intrusion or by
using such place for any purpose for which it is not so set apart.
91. Behaving indecently in public.—No person shall wilfully and indecently expose his person in
any street or public place or place of public resort or within sight of, and in such manner as to be seen
from, any street or public place or place of public resort, whether from within any house or building or
not, or use indecent language or behave indecently or riotously or in a disorderly manner in a street or
public place or place of public resort or in any office, police station or station house.
92. Obstructing or annoying passengers in the street.—No person shall wilfully push, press, hustle
or obstruct any passenger in a street or public place or by violent movements, menacing gestures, wanton
personal annoyance, screaming, shouting, wilfully frightening horses or cattle or otherwise, disturb the
public peace or order.
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93. Misbehaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace.—No person shall use in any street
or public place any threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach
of the peace or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned.
94. Prohibition against flying kites, etc.—No person shall fly a kite or any other thing so as to cause
danger, injury or alarm to persons, animals or property.
95. Committing nuisance in or near street, etc.—No person shall in or near to any street, public
place or place of public resort—
(a) commit a nuisance by easing himself; or
(b) having the care or custody of any child under seven years of age, suffer such child to commit
a nuisance as aforesaid; or
(c) spit or throw any dust, ashes, refuse or rubbish so as to cause annoyance to any passer-by.
96. Disregard of notice in public building.—No person shall, in any court, police station, police
office or building occupied by Government or building occupied by any local body, smoke, or spit in
contravention of a notice, by the competent authority in charge of such place, displayed in such court,
police station, police office or building.
97. Penalties for offences under sections 80 to 96.—Any person who contravenes any of the
provisions of sections 80 to 96 (both inclusive) shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may
extend to one hundred rupees, or, in default of payment of such fine, with imprisonment for a term not
exceeding eight days.
98. Penalty for failure to keep in confinement cattle, etc.—(1) Whoever allows any cattle which
are his property or in his charge to stray in any street or to trespass upon any public or private property
shall on conviction be punished—
(a) for the first offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with
fine which may extend to three hundred rupees, or with both; and
(b) for the second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six
months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
(2) The Metropolitan Magistrate trying an offence under sub-section (1) may order—
(a) that the accused shall pay such compensation not exceeding two hundred and fifty rupees as
such Magistrate considers reasonable to any person for any damage proved to have been caused to his
property or the produce of his land by the cattle under the control of the accused trespassing on his
land; and
(b) that the cattle in respect of which the offence has been committed shall be forfeited to the
Government.
(3) Any compensation awarded under sub-section (2) may be recovered as if it were a fine imposed
under this section.
(4) It shall be the duty of every police officer and it shall be lawful for any other person to seize and
take to any cattle pound for confinement therein any cattle found straying in any street or trespassing
upon any private or public property.
(5) Any fine imposed under this section may, without prejudice to any other means of recovery
provided by law, be recovered by sale of all or any of the cattle in respect of which the offence was
committed, whether they are the property of the person convicted of the offence or were only in his
charge when the offence was committed.
(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), the
offence punishable under this section shall be cognizable.
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99. Punishment for cruelty to animals.—Whoever in any place cruelly beats, goads, overworks,
ill-treats or tortures or causes, or procures to be cruelly beaten, goaded, overworked, ill-treated or
tortured, any animal shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment which may extend to one
month, or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both.
100. Wilful trespass.—Whoever without satisfactory excuse wilfully enters or remains in or upon
any dwelling-house or premises or land or ground attached thereto, or on any ground, building,
monument or structure belonging to Government or used for public purposes, or on any vehicle, shall, on
conviction, whether he causes any actual damage or not, be punished with imprisonment which may
extend to seven days or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both.
101. False alarm of fire or damage to fire alarm.—Whoever knowingly gives or causes to be given
a false alarm of fire to the fire brigade of the Government or the Corporation or a municipality or to any
officer or fireman thereof, whether by means of a street fire alarm, statement, message or otherwise, or
with intent to give such false alarm wilfully breaks the glass of, or otherwise damages, a street fire alarm,
shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with
fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both.
102. Being found under suspicious circumstances between sunset and sunrise.—Whoever is
found between sunset and sunrise—
(a) armed with any dangerous instrument with intent to commit an offence; or
(b) having his face covered, or otherwise disguised with intent to commit an offence; or
(c) in any dwelling-house or other building, or on any vehicle, without being able satisfactorily to
account for his presence there; or
(d) lying or loitering in any street, yard or other place, being a reputed thief and without being
able to give a satisfactory account of himself; or
(e) having in his possession without lawful excuse (the burden of proving which excuse shall be
on such person) any implement of house breaking,
shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months.
103. Possession of property of which no satisfactory account can be given.—Whoever has in his
possession or conveys in any manner, or offers for sale or pawn, anything which there is reason to believe
is stolen property or property fraudulently obtained, shall, if he fails to account for such possession or act
to the satisfaction of the Metropolitan Magistrate, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a
term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with
both.
104. Omission by pawn-brokers, etc., to report to police possession or tender of property
suspected to be stolen.—Whoever being a pawn-broker, dealer in second hand property, or worker in
metals, or reasonably believed by the Commissioner of Police to be such a person, and having received
from a police officer written or printed information in relation to any property suspected to have been
transferred by any offence mentioned in section 410 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) or by any
offence punishable under section 417, section 418, section 419 or section 420 of the said Code, is found
in possession, or, after the receipt of such information, comes into possession or has an offer, either by
way of sale, pawn, exchange, or for custody, alteration or otherwise, howsoever, made to him, of property
answering the description contained in such information, shall, unless—
(i) he forthwith gives information to the Commissioner of Police, or at a police station of such
possession or offers and takes all reasonable means to ascertain and to give information as aforesaid
of the name and address of the person from whom the possession or offer was received, or
(ii) the property, being an article of common wearing apparel or otherwise, is incapable of
identification from the written or printed information given and has been in no way concealed after
the receipt of such information,
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on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees in respect of each such article of
property so in his possession or offered to him.
105. Melting, etc., of property referred to in section 104.—Whoever having received such
information as is referred to in section 104 alters, melts, defaces or puts away or causes or suffers to be
altered, melted, defaced or put away, without the previous permission of the police, any such property as
is referred to in that section shall, on proof that the same was stolen property within the meaning of
section 410 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) or property in respect of which any offence punishable
under section 417, section 418, section 419 or section 420 of the said Code has been committed, be
punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine, or with both.
106. Taking pledge from child.—Whoever takes from any child, not appearing to be above the age
of fourteen years, any article whatsoever as a pawn, pledge or security for any sum of money lent,
advanced or delivered to such child or without the knowledge and consent of the owner of the article buys
from such child any article whatsoever, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to
one hundred rupees.
107. Suffering disorderly conduct at places of public amusement, etc.—Whoever, being the
keeper of any place of public amusement or public entertainment, knowingly permits or suffers
drunkenness or other disorderly behaviour or any gambling whatsoever, in such place, shall, on
conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.
108. Cheating at games and gambling in street.—(1) Whoever by any fraud or unlawful device or
malpractice in playing at or with cards, dice or other game or in taking part in the stakes or wagers, or in
betting on the sides or hands of the players, or in wagering on the event of any game, sports, pastime or
exercise, wins from any other person, for himself or any other or others, any sum of money or valuable
thing, shall be deemed to have committed the offence of cheating within the meaning of section 415 of
the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), and be liable to punishment accordingly.
(2) Whoever assembles with others, or joins any assembly, in a street assembled for the purpose of
gambling or wagering shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees or
may be released after a due admonition.
109. Penalty for disobedience to order under section 27.—Whoever contravenes, disobeys,
opposes, or fails to conform to an order under section 27 requiring him to vacate any premises, shall, on
conviction be punished with imprisonment which may extend to three months or with fine which may
extend to five hundred rupees or with both.
110. Penalty for contravening regulations, etc., under section 28.—Save as provided in
section 112, whoever contravenes, or abets the contravention of, any regulation made under section 28 or
any of the conditions of a licence issued under such regulation shall, on conviction, be punished—
(a) if the regulation was made under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 28 providing for the
prohibition of the sale, or exposure for sale, of any goods on any street or portion thereof so as to
cause obstruction to traffic or inconvenience to the public—
(i) for the first offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or
with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both, and
(ii) for any subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six
months and with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees;
(b) if the regulation was made under clause (d), (h), (i), or (j), sub-clause (i) or (ii) of clause (s) or
clause (v) of sub-section (1) of section 28, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to eight
days, or with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, or with both;
(c) if the regulation was made under clause (o) or (p) of sub-section (1) of section 28, with fine
which may extend to two hundred rupees; and
(d) if the regulation was made under any clause of sub-section (1) of section 28 and for the
contravention of which no penalty is provided under clause (a), (b) or (c) of this section, with fine
which may extend to fifty rupees.
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111. Liability of licensee of place of public amusement or entertainment for acts of servants.—
The holder of a licence granted under this Act in respect of a place of public amusement or public
entertainment shall be responsible, as well as the actual offender for any offence under section 110
committed by his servant or other agent acting with his express or implied permission on his behalf as if
he himself had committed the same, unless he establishes that all due and reasonable precautions were
taken by him to prevent the commission of such offence.
112. Penalty for not obtaining licence in respect of place of public entertainment or certificate of
registration in respect of eating house or for not renewing such licence or certificate within
prescribed period.—(1) Whoever fails to obtain a licence under this Act in respect of a place of public
entertainment or a certificate of registration thereunder in respect of any eating house, or to renew the
licence or the certificate, as the case may be, within the prescribed period shall, on conviction, be
punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
(2) Any court trying any such offence shall in addition direct that the person keeping the place of
public entertainment, or the eating house, in respect of which the offence has been committed shall close
such place, or eating house until he obtains a licence or fresh licence, or a certificate of registration or
fresh certificate of registration, as the case may be, in respect thereof and thereupon such person shall
forthwith comply with such direction.
(3) If the person fails to comply with any such direction, he shall, on conviction, be punished with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month or with fine which may extend to two hundred
rupees or with both.
(4) Without prejudice to any action taken under sub-section (3), on the failure of such person to
comply with the direction of the court, any police officer authorised by the Commissioner of Police, by an
order in writing, may take or cause to be taken such steps and use or cause to be used such force as may,
in the opinion of such officer, be reasonably necessary for securing compliance with the court’s direction.
113. Penalties for contravention of orders, etc., under sections 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and
34.—(1) Whoever contravenes, disobeys, opposes or fails to conform to any order given by a police
officer under section 29 shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred
rupees.
(2) Whoever contravenes a notification or an order made under section 30, section 32, section 33 or
section 34 or abets the contravention thereof shall, on conviction, be punished—
(a) if the said notification or order was made under sub-section (1) of section 30 or under
section 33 or section 34, with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than four months but
which may extend to one year, and shall also be liable to fine:
Provided that the court may, for adequate and sufficient reasons to be mentioned in the judgment,
impose a sentence of imprisonment for a term of less than four months;
(b) if the said order was made under sub-section (2) of section 30, with imprisonment for a term
which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both;
(c) if the said notification was made under sub-section (3) of section 30, with fine which may
extend to one hundred rupees; or
(d) if the said order was made under section 32, with imprisonment for a term which may extend
to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
(3) Whoever opposes or fails to conform to any direction given by a police officer under section 31,
shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.
114. Penalty for contravention of regulations, etc., made under sections 35, 36 and
37.—Whoever contravenes, or abets the contravention of, any regulation, notice or order made under
section 35, section 36 or section 37 shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment which may
extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both.
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115. Penalty for contravention of directions under sections 46, 47 or 48.—Whoever opposes or
fails to conform to any direction issued under section 46, section 47 or section 48 or abets the opposition
to, or the failure to conform to, any such direction shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment
which shall not be less than four months but which may extend to one year and shall also be liable to fine:
Provided that the court may, for adequate and special reasons to be mentioned in the judgment,
impose a sentence of imprisonment for a term of less than four months.
116. Penalty for entering without permission area from which a person is directed to remove
himself or overstaying when permitted to return temporarily.—Without prejudice to the power to
arrest and remove a person in the circumstances, and in the manner provided in section 53, any person
who—
(a) in contravention of a direction issued to him under section 46, section 47 or section 48 enters
or returns without permission to Delhi, or any part thereof, as the case may be, from which he was
directed to remove himself; or
(b) enters or returns to Delhi or any part thereof with permission granted under sub-section (1) of
section 54, but fails, contrary to the provisions thereof, to remove himself outside such area at the
expiry of the temporary period for which he was permitted to enter or return or on the earlier
revocation of such permission, or having removed himself at the expiry of such temporary period or
on revocation of the permission, enters or returns thereafter, without fresh permission,
shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months
but which may extend to two years and shall also be liable to fine:
Provided that the court may, for adequate and special reasons to be mentioned in the judgment,
impose a sentence of imprisonment for a term of less than six months.
117. Penalty for contravention of orders under section 57.—Whoever contravenes any order made
under section 57 shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
three years, or with fine, or with both.
118. Penalty for opposing or not complying with direction given under clause (b) of
sub-section (1) of section 59.—Whoever opposes or fails forthwith to comply with any reasonable
requisition made by a police officer under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 59, or abets the
opposition thereto or failure to comply therewith, shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for
a term which shall not be less than four months but which may extend to one year and shall also be liable
to fine:
Provided that the court may, for adequate and special reasons to be mentioned in the judgment,
impose a sentence of imprisonment for a term of less than four months.
119. Penalty for contravening directions under section 65.—Whoever opposes or fails to conform
to any direction given by any police officer under section 65 or abets the opposition or failure to conform
to such direction shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
120. Dangerous performances.—(1) No person shall without the previous permission of the
Commissioner of Police and except in accordance with any conditions subject to which such permission
is granted, hold or give in any place which is likely to cause an assembly of persons, any performance in
which or during which he buries himself under ground or seals himself in any room or receptacle or other
thing, in such manner as to prevent all access of air to him and for such time as would ordinarily result in
death by suffocation.
(2) If any person contravenes or attempts to contravene the provisions of sub-section (1), he shall, on
conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine, or with
both.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), the
offence punishable under this section shall be cognizable.
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121. Neglect or refusal to serve as special police officer.—(1) Any person, who having been
appointed to be a special police officer under section 17 shall without sufficient cause neglect or refuse to
serve as such or to obey any lawful order or direction that may be given to him for the performance of his
duties as such special police officer, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty
rupees.
(2) Such punishment shall automatically cancel the certificate of appointment of such a special police
officer.
122. Penalty for making false statement, etc., and for misconduct of police officers.—(a) Any
person who makes a false statement or uses a false document for the purpose of obtaining employment or
release from employment as a police officer, or
(b) any police officer who—
(i) is guilty of cowardice, or
(ii) being a police officer of subordinate rank, resigns his office or withdraws himself from duties
thereof in contravention of section 25, or
(iii) is guilty of any wilful breach or neglect of any provision of law or of any rule or regulation or
any order which he is bound to observe or obey, or
(iv) is guilty of any violation of duty for which no punishment is expressly provided by any other
law in force,
shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or
with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both.
Explanation.—A police Officer who being absent on leave fails without reasonable cause to report
himself for duty on the expiration of such leave shall, for the purpose of sub-clause (ii) of clause (b), be
deemed to withdraw himself from the duties of his office within the meaning of section 25.
123. Penalty for failure to deliver up certificate of appointment or other article.—Any police
officer, who wilfully neglects or refuses to deliver up his certificate of appointment or of office or any
other article, in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 26 shall, on conviction, be
punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to
two hundred rupees, or with both.
124. Vexatious entry, search, arrest, etc., by police officer.—Any police officer who—
(a) without lawful authority or reasonable cause enters or searches, or causes to be entered or
searched, any building, vessel, tent or place; or
(b) vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes the property of any person; or
(c) vexatiously and unnecessarily detains, searches or arrests any person; or
(d) offers any unnecessary personal violence to any person in his custody; or
(e) holds out any threat or promise not warranted by law,
shall, for every such offence, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend
to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
125. Penalty for vexatious delay in forwarding a person arrested.—Any police officer who
vexatiously and unnecessarily delays the forwarding of any person arrested to a Magistrate or to any other
authority to whom he is legally bound to forward such person, shall, on conviction, be punished with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred
rupees, or with both.
126. Penalty for unauthorised use of police uniforms.—If any persons not being a member of the
Delhi police wears, without the permission of an officer authorised by the Administrator in this behalf by
general or special order, the uniform of the Delhi police or any dress having the appearance or bearing
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any of the distinctive marks of that uniform, he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may
extend to two hundred rupees.
127. Power to make regulations regarding carrying weapons without authority.—(1) The
Commissioner of Police may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make regulations to provide that no
person, other than a member of the armed forces of the Union acting as such or a police officer, shall go
armed with any sword, spear, bludgeon, gun or other offensive weapon or with any explosive or corrosive
substance in any street or public place unless so authorised by such authority as may be specified in such
regulations.
(2) Any regulation made under sub-section (1) may provide that any person who goes armed in
contravention of such regulation shall be liable to be disarmed by any police officer and the weapon or
substance so seized shall be forfeited to the Government, unless redeemed within two months by payment
of such fine, not exceeding five hundred rupees, as the Commissioner of Police imposes.
128. Prosecution for certain offences against this Act to be in the discretion of Delhi
police.—It shall not, except in obedience to a rule, regulation or order made by the Administrator or by
the Commissioner of Police, be incumbent on the Delhi police to prosecute for an offence punishable
under section 97, section 104, sub-section (1) of section 113, section 114, section 119 or section 121
when such offence has not occasioned serious mischief and has been promptly desisted from on a warning
being given.
129. Summary disposal of certain cases.—(1) A court taking cognizance of an offence punishable
under section 97, or under clause (a), (b) or (c) of section 110 may state upon the summons to be served
on the accused person that he may, by a specified date, prior to the hearing of the charge plead guilty to
the charge by registered letter and remit to the court such sum not exceeding one hundred rupees in the
case of an offence punishable under section 97 and in any other case rupees fifty, as the court may
specify.
(2) Where an accused person pleads guilty and remits the sum specified in the summons, under
sub-section (1), no further proceedings in respect of the offence shall be taken against him.
130. Prosecution for offences under other enactments not affected.—Subject to the provisions
contained in section 300 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), nothing in this Act shall be
construed to prevent any person from being prosecuted and punished under any other law for anything
made punishable by this Act or from being prosecuted and punished under this Act for anything made
punishable under any other law.
131. Offences by companies.—(1) Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a
company, every person who at the time the offence was committed, was in charge of, and was responsible
to, the company for the conduct of the business of the company, as well as the company, shall be deemed
to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly:
Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall render any such person liable to any
punishment provided in this Act, if he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge or
that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where an offence under this Act has been
committed by a company and it is proved that the offence has been committed with the consent or
connivance of, or that the commission of the offence is attributable to, any neglect on the part of any
director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company, such director, manager, secretary or other
officer shall also be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and
punished accordingly.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section,—
(a) “company” means a body corporate, and includes a firm or other association of
individuals; and
(b) “director”, in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.