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Arunachal Armed Police Act, 1993
Arunachal Armed Police Act, 1993
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Application of the Act.
Section 23. Definitions.
Section 34. Constitution of the Armed Police.
Section 45. Appointment and powers of Superior Officers.
Section 56. Enrolment.
Section 67. Resignation and withdrawal from the Armed Police.
Section 78. General duties of members of the Armed Police.
Section 89. Superintendence, Control and Administration of the Armed Police.
Section 910. More heinous offences.
Section 1011. Less heinous offences.
Section 1112. Attempt to or abetment of offences.
Section 1213. Restrictions respecting right to form association, freedom of speech etc.
Section 1314. Penalty.
Section 1415. Departmental punishments.
Section 1516. Place of imprisonment and liability to dismissal on imprisonment.
Section 1617. Deductions from pay and allowance.
Section 1718. Collective fines.
Section 1819. Arrest.
Section 1920. Suspension.
Section 2021. Powers and duties conferable and imposable on members of the Armed Police and the superior officers.
Section 2122. Armed Police courts.
Section 2223. Appointment of Law Officer.
Section 2324. Powers of Revision.
Section 2425. Power of the State Government to direct trial by ordinary criminal court.
Section 2526. Reference to the State Government regarding jurisdiction.
Section 2627. Place of Trial.
Section 2728. Protection for acts done by the members of the Armed Police.
Section 2829. Redressal of grievances.
Section 2930. Powers of the State Government to disband or reconstitute the Armed Police.
Section 3031. Power to make rules.
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"content": "(a) \"active duty\" means -\n(i) the duty to restore and preserve order in any area in the event of any disturbance therein ;\n(ii) the duty at guards picquet, patrol, escorts to protect life and property including arms, ammunition, cash and valuables in any area in the event of any disturbance therein ;\n(iii) the duty at outposts, detachments or in the field against extremists, hostiles, enemy or other persons; and\n(iv) such other duty as may be specified to be active duty by the State Government or the Inspector-General;\nand the same shall be deemed to have commenced on and from the moment of receipt by a member of the Arunachal Armed Police of the order of any superior officer to render such duty or on receipt of any information from other sources about loot, arson or raid by extremists, hostiles, enemy or other persons ;\n(b) \"Armed Police\" means the Arunachal Armed Police ;\n(c) \"Assistant Commandant\" means a person appointed by the State Government to be an Assistant Commandant of a Battalion of Armed Police who may be assigned with the duties of an Adjutant, Quarter-master or Company Commander by the Commandant:\n(d) \"Close arrest\" means confinement within the Armed Police or a detachment or a post or quarter guard building or tent under charge of a guard ;\n(e) \"Commandant\" means a person appointed by the State Government to be a Commandant of a Battalion of the Armed Police .\n(f) \"Constable\" means a person appointed as Constable by the Commandant and includes a Havildar, Naik and Lance-Naik ;\n(g) \"Deputy Commandant\" means a person appointed by the State Government to be the Second-in-Command of a Battalion of the Arunachal Armed Police ;\n(h) \"Deputy Inspector General\" means a Deputy Inspector General of Police, Arunachal Pradesh who has been empowered by the State Government to do the duties relating to regulation of the Armed Police ana to exercise powers and functions under this\n(i) \"Enrolled Follower\" means any person appointed to do the work of a cook, masalchi, water-carrier, mess-servant, ward-boy, washerman, cobbler, barber, sweeper, helper or cleaner;\n(j) \"Inspector-General\" means the Inspector- General of Police, Arunachal Pradesh ;\n(k) \"Inspector\" means a person appointed by the Inspector-General to be a Subedar who may be assigned with the duties of the Second-in-Command of a Company or with such other duties as may be specified by the Inspector-General from time to time and includes a person who may be transferred by the Inspector-General to fill a post of Subedar on deputation from amongst the Inspectors of Police, Arunachal Pradesh ;\n(l) \"Member of the Armed Police\" means a person who has been appointed to the Armed police by the Inspector-General or, as the case may be, by the Commandant and includes a subordinate officer, a Constable, an Enrolled Follower and a person appointed in subordinate rank under the Police Act, 1861 or in Defence Service or a Para-military personnel, posted to the Armed Police on deputation in such ranks ;\n(m) \"Open arrest\" means confinement within the precincts of any barracks, lines or camp for the time being occupied by any part of the Arunachal Armed Police ;\n(n) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(o) \"Quarter Guard\" means a building or tent under guard within the precinct of the headquarters of a Battalion, Company or Platoon of the Armed Police used permanently or temporarily for the safe custody of arms, ammunition, munitions and cash or for the imprisonment, detention or custody of the members of the Armed Police accused of or convicted for any offence under this Act or other Acts ;\n(p) \"State Government\" means the Government of Arunachal Pradesh ;\n(q) \"Sub-Inspector\" means a person appointed by the Commandant to be a Sub-Inspector who may be assigned with the duties of the Platoon Commander or with such other duties as may be specified by the Commandant from time to time :\n(r) \"Subordinate Officer\" means a member of the Armed Police who is of the rank of Inspector or Sub-Inspector;\n(s) \"Superior Officer\" in relation to any member of the Armed Police, means-\n(i) any officer of a rank which is higher than that of such member; and\n(ii) a Commandant, Deputy Commandant or Assistant Commandant;\n(t) the expression \"assault\", \"Criminal force\" , \"fraudulently\", \"reason to believe\" and \"Voluntarily causing hurt\" shall have the same meanings as assigned to them respectively in the Indian Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860);\n(u) All words and expressions used and not defined in this Act but defined in the Indian Penal Court shall have the.\nChapter - II\nConstitution of The Armed Police and General Duties of The Members of The Armed Police",
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"title": "4. Constitution of the Armed Police.",
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"content": "(a) divide the Armed Police into Battalion, each Battalion into companies, each company into platoons and each platoon into section, groups and detachments;\n(b) post any Battalion, Company or Platoon at such places as the state Government, the Inspector-General, the Deputy Inspector- General or the Commandant may deem fit.",
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"content": "(a) resign his appointment during the term of his engagement except before the expiration to the first three months of his service ; or\n(b) withdraw himself from all or any of the duties of his appointment, without the previous permission in writing of the Commandant or Deputy Commandant or any other officer authorised by the Commandant to grant such permission.",
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"content": "(a) to obey and to execute all orders and warrants lawfully issued to him by any competent authority, to detect and bring offenders to justice and to apprehend all person^ whom he is legally authorised to apprehend and for whose apprehension sufficient grounds exist; and\n(b) to take all adequate measures for extinguishing of fires or to prevent damage to person or property on the occasion of such occurrences as fires, floods, earthquakes, cyclones, enemy action or riots.\nChapter - III\nSuperintendence Control and Administration of The Armed Police",
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"content": "(a) begins, excites, causes or conspires to cause or joins in any mutiny, or, being present at any mutiny, does not use his utmost endeavour to suppress it, or knowing, or having reason to believe in the existence of any mutiny or of any intention or conspiracy to mutiny or of any conspiracy against the State does not, without delay, give information thereof to his superior officer; or\n(b) uses or attempts to use, criminal force to, or commits an assault on, his superior officer, whether on or off duty, knowing or having reason to believe him to be such ; or\n(c) shamefully abandons or delivers up any post or guard which is committed to his charge, or which it is his duty to defend ; or\n(d) directly or indirectly holds correspondence with, or assist or relieves any person in arms against the State or omits to discover immediately to his superior officer any such correspondence coming to his knowledge; or who, while on active duty ;\n(e) disobeys the lawful command of his superior officer; or\n(f) deserts the Armed Police ; or\n(g) being a Sentry or otherwise detailed to remain alert, sleeps upon his post or quits it without being regularly relieved or without leave; or\n(h) leaves his commanding officer or; his post or party without authority ; or\n(i) quits his guard, picquet, party or patrol without being regularly relieved or without leave; or\n(j) uses criminal force to or commits an assault or any person or forces a safeguard or breaks into any house or other place for plunder or destroys or damages property of any kind ; or\n(k) intentionally causes or spreads a false alarm in action or in camp, garrison or quarters; or\n(l) displays cowardice in the execution of his duty ; or\n(m) rapes or assaults or uses criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby outrage her modesty; shall be punishable with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extended to fourteen years or with fine which may extend to three months pay or with both.",
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"content": "(a) is in a State of intoxication when on, or after having been warned for, any duty or on parade or on the line or march ; or\n(b) strikes or attempts to force any sentry ; or\n(c) being in command or being a member of a guard, picquet or patrol, refuses to receive any prisoner or person duly committed to his charge, or without proper authority releases any person or prisoner placed under his charge, or negligently suffers any such prisoner or person to escape ; or\n(d) being under arrest or in confinement, leaves his arrest or confinement, before he is set at liberty by lawful authority ; or\n(e) is grossly in subordinate or insolent to his superior officer in the execution of his office; or\n(f) refuses to superintendent or assist in the making of any field work or other work of any description ordered to be made either in quarters or in the field ; or\n(g) strikes or otherwise ill-uses any member of the Armed Police subordinate to him in rank or position ; or\n(h) designedly or through neglect injures or losses or fraudulently disposes of his arms, clothes, tools, equipments, ammunition or accoutrement, or any such articles entrusted to him or belonging to any other person ; or\n(i) malingers or feigns or produces disease or infirmity in himself or intentionally delays his cure, or aggravates his disease or infirmity; or\n(j) with intent to render himself or any other person unfit for service voluntarily causes hurt to himself or any other person ; or\n(k) does not, when called upon by his superior officer so to do or upon ceasing to be a member of the Armed Police forthwith deliver up or duly account for, all or any arms ammunition, stores, accoutrement or other property issued or supplied to him or in his custody or possession as such member; or\n(l) knowingly furnishes a false return or report of the member or a state of any men under his command or charge or of any money, arms, ammunition; clothing, equipments, stores or other property in his charge, whether belonging to such men or to the Government or to any member of, or any person attached to, the Armed Police, or who through design or culpable neglect, omits or refuses to make or send any return or report of the matters aforesaid ; or\n(m) absents himself without leave, or without sufficient cause overstays leave granted to him; or\n(n) is guilty of any act or omission which, though not specified in this Act, is prejudicial to good order and discipline ; or\n(o) contra-vents any provision of this Act for which no punishment is expressly provided ; or Who while not on active duty-\n(p) commits any of the offences specified in clause (c) to (1) (both inclusive) of section 10.",
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"title": "13. Restrictions respecting right to form association, freedom of speech etc.",
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"content": "(a) be a member of, or be associated in any way with, any trade union, labour union, political association, or with any class of trade unions, labour unions or political associations; or\n(b) be a member of, or be associated in any way with, any other society institution, association, or organisation that is not recognised as part of the force of which he is a member or is not of a purely social, recreational or religious nature ; or\n(c) communicate with the press or publish or cause to be published any book letter or other document except where such communication or publication is in the bonafide discharge of his duties or is of a purely literary, artistic and scientific character or is of a prescribed nature.",
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"title": "14. Penalty.",
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"number": "15",
"title": "15. Departmental punishments.",
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"content": "Minor punishments:\n(a) deprivation of acting or officiating rank;\n(b) fine of arty amount not exceeding one month's pay and allowances ;\n(c) confinement to quarters or camp for a term not exceeding twenty eight days\n(d) confinement in quarter guard for not more than twenty eight days with oi without punishment drill or extra guard or fatique.\n(e) removal from any office of distinction or special emolument in the Armed Police ;\n(f) censure or severe censure ;\nMajor punishment:\n(g) reduction in substantive rank ;\n(h) compulsory retirement;\n(i) removal from service which shall not be a disqualification for future employment under the government;\n(j) dismissal:\n(a) confinement for not more than seven days in the quarter guard or such other place as may be considered suitable with forfeiture of all pay, allowances during its continuance ;\n(b) punishment drill, extra-guard, fatique or other duty, for not more than fourteen days, with or without confinement to quarters, lines or camp ;\n(c) censure or severe censure :",
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"number": "16",
"title": "16. Place of imprisonment and liability to dismissal on imprisonment.",
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"number": "17",
"title": "17. Deductions from pay and allowance.",
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"content": "(a) all pay and allowances for every day of absence either on desertion or without leave and for every day of imprisonment awarded by a criminal court or of confinement awarded under section 15;\n(b) all pay and allowances for every day whilst he is in custody on a charge for an offence of which he is afterwards convicted ;\n(c) all pay allowances for every day on which he is in hospital on account of sickness certified by the medical officer attending on him at the hospital to have been caused by an offence committed by him under this Act;\n(d) all pay and allowances ordered to be forfeited under section 15 ; and\n(e) such sum as may be ordered by the Commandant or Deputy Commandant in order to make good any expense caused by the member of the Armed Police, or any loss of or damage or destruction done by him to any arms, ammunition, equipment, clothing, instruments or decorations belonging to the Armed Police or to any buildings or property.",
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"title": "18. Collective fines.",
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"number": "19",
"title": "19. Arrest.",
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"number": "20",
"title": "20. Suspension.",
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"content": "Chapter - IV\nMiscellaneous",
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"title": "21. Powers and duties conferable and imposable on members of the Armed Police and the superior officers.",
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"content": "(i) when the offender is on leave or absent from duty or is on active duty ; or\n(ii) when the offence is not connected with the offender's duties as a member of the Armed Police ; or\n(iii) when an offence is committed by a member of the Armed Police along with any other person who is not subject to this Act and whose identity is known ; the offence may, if the prescribed authority, with in the limits of whose jurisdiction the offence has been committed, so directs, be enquired into or tried by an ordinary criminal court having jurisdiction.",
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"number": "22",
"title": "22. Armed Police courts.",
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"content": "(i) General Armed Police Court :\n(ii) Battalion Armed Police Court.\n(ii) An officer not below the rank of a Superintendent of Police or Commandant who has completed at least seven years service in the same, equivalent or higher rank, shall be the presiding judge of a General Armed Police Court.\n(iii) Two officers of the rank of a superintendent of Police or a Commandant of the Armed Police or an Additional Superintendent of Police or a Deputy commandant who have completed at least three years service in the same or equivalent rank shall be the member judges of a General Armed Police Court.\n(ii) An officer not below the rank of a Superintendent or Police or a Commandant of the Armed Police shall be the presiding judge of a Battalion Armed Police Court.\n(iii) Two officers not below the rank of an assistant commandant of the Armed Police shall be the member judge of a Battalion Armed Police Court.\n(a) any offence under section 10 or 12 of this Act shall be tried by General Armed Police Court;\n(b) any offence under section 10 or 12 of this Act shall be tried by a Battalion Armed Police Court.",
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"number": "23",
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"title": "28. Protection for acts done by the members of the Armed Police.",
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"title": "29. Redressal of grievances.",
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"content": "(1) by petition to Commandant through proper channel or by personal appearance on request in the Orderly Room of the Commandant;\n(2) in periodical meetings to be presided over by the Commandant.",
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"title": "31. Power to make rules.",
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"content": "(a) regulating the classes and grades of and the pay, pension, and other remuneration of, members of the Armed Police and their conditions of service in the Armed Police.\n(b) regulating the powers and duties of officers authorised to exercise any function by or under this Act;\n(c) fixing the period of service for members of the Armed Police;\n(d) regulating the award of departmental punishments under section 15 and providing for appeals from, or the revision of, orders under that section or the remission of fines imposed under that section, and the remission of deductions made under section 17 ;\n(e) regulating the several or collective liabilities of members of the Armed Police in the case of the less or theft of weapons and ammunition;\n(f) for the disposal criminal cases arising under this act this act and for specifying the prison in which a person convicted if any such case may be confined.\nThe Schedule Statement\n( See section 6)\nFather's name :\nAddress Village :\nP.S. :\nPost office :\nDistrict :\nState :\nPhotograph of the candidate duly attested by the enrolling officer.\n(Space for impression of the member's Left thumb to be taken in the presence of the enrolling officer).\n(Signed in my presence after I had ascertained that the candidate understood the purport of what he signed).\nPlace...............\nDate...........\nName In Block Letters,\nCommandant,\nor other authorised enrolling Officer.",
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