Section 10
Penalties.
About this Act
An Act to make provision for the better management of wakf property and for ensuring the keeping and publication of proper accounts in respect of such properties
Any person who is required by or under section 3 or section 4 to furnish a statement
of particulars or any document relating to a wakf, or who is required by Section 5 to furnish a statement
of accounts, shall, if he, without reasonable cause the burden of proving which shall lie upon him fails to
furnish such statement or document, as the case may be, in due time, or furnishes a statement which he
knows or has reason to believe to be false, misleading or untrue in any material particular, or, in the case
of a statement of account, furnishes a statement which has not been audited in the manner required by
Section 6, be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or, in the case of a second or
subsequent offence, with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees1
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Notes
1. In the application of the Act to Bombay new ss. 10A to 10D have been ins. by the Mussalman Wakf (Bombay
Amendment) Act, 1935 (Bom. 18 of 1935) S. 13.