CHAPTER VII. OFFENCES AND PENALTIES.

Section 44: Enhanced punishment after previous conviction

The Telangana Excise Act, 1968

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Telangana (Revenue Department): the Andhra Pradesh Excise Act, 1968 as in force in the combined State on 2 June 2014, adapted to Telangana under section 101 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 by the notification issued in G.O.Ms.No.162, Revenue (Excise-II) Department, dated 10.09.2015, with amendments up to Act No.32 of 2017.

Amendments made by Andhra Pradesh after 2 June 2014, such as A.P. Acts 2, 4 and 17 of 2020, do not apply in Telangana and are not in this text.

If any person, after having been previously convicted of an offence punishable under section 34, section 35, section 37, section 38 or section 40 or under the corresponding provisions of any enactment repealed by this Act, subsequently commits and is convicted of any offence punishable under any of those sections, he shall be liable to twice the punishment which might be imposed on a first conviction under this Act:

Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent any offence which might otherwise have been tried summarily under ¹[Chapter XXI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973] from being so tried.

Footnotes in the official text

1.Substituted by Act No.4 of 1994.