Section 49
Alternative punishments awardable by Security Force Courts.
The Border Security Force Act, 1968
About this Act
An Act to provide for the constitution and regulation of an Armed Force of the Union for ensuring the security of the borders of India and for matters connected therewith.
Subject to the provisions of
this Act, a Security Force Court may, on convicting a person subject to this Act of any of the offences
specified in sections 14 to 45 (both inclusive) award either the particular punishment with which the
offence is stated in the said sections to be punishable or, in lieu thereof, any one of the punishments lower
in the scale set out in section 48 regard being had to the nature and degree of the offence