Section 20 of The Coastal Shipping Act, 2025: Punishment for illegally detaining person authorised to detain vessel.
The Coastal Shipping Act, 2025
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to regulation of coastal shipping, promote coasting trade and encourage domestic participation therein, to ensure that India is equipped with a coastal fleet, owned and operated by the citizens of India for its national security and commercial needs, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Where any vessel, after detention or order for such detention proceeds to sea with any person authorised to detain any vessel on board before it is released, the licensee or agent of such vessel shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine upto one lakh rupees and all expenses of, and incidental to, such person being so taken to sea, or with both, and the vessel shall also be liable for detention under section 29.