Act Number: 47

Act Name: The Assam Rifles Act, 2006

Year: 2006

Enactment Date: 2006-11-03

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the governance of the Assam Rifles, an Armed Force of the Union for ensuring the security of the borders of India, to carry out Counter Insurgency Operations in the specified areas and to act in aid of civil authorities for the maintenance of the law and order and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Internal Security

Section 39: Offences in respect of property.
    Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,—
         (a) commits theft of any property belonging to the Government, or to any Force mess, band, or institution, or to any person subject to this Act; or
         (b) dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use any such property; or
         (c) commits criminal breach of trust in respect of any such property; or
         (d) dishonestly receives or retains any such property in respect of which any of the offences under clauses (a), (b) and (c) has been committed, knowing or having reason to believe the commission of such offence; or
         (e) wilfully destroys or injures any property of the Government entrusted to him; or
         (f) does any other thing with intent to defraud, or to cause wrongful gain to one person or wrongful loss to another person,
shall, on conviction by an Assam Rifles Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.
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