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CHAPTER IX Offences and Penalties

Section 61A: Penalty for certain acts and omissions by Excise Officers

The Rajasthan Excise Act, 1950

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Rajasthan, with amendments up to Rajasthan Act No. 14 of 2014; it also shows section 28-A (surcharge for mitigating natural or manmade calamities), added in 2020.

Section 25 is not printed in this copy; section 24 is followed by section 26.

1[If any Excise Officer unlawfully releases or abets the escape of any person arrested under this Act or acts in any manner inconsistent with his duty for the purpose of enabling any person to do anything whereby any of the provisions of this Act may be evaded or contravened or the excise revenue may be defrauded, he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term, which shall not be less than three months but which may extend to one year :

Provided that no court shall take cognizance against any officer under this section without prior permission of the State Government"].

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Inserted vide Rajasthan Excise (Amendment) Act, 2007 vide Notifi. No 2(27) Vidhi/2/2006, dt 6.6.2007.

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