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 46: Offences relating to Assam Rifles Court.
    Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,—
         (a) being duly summoned or ordered to attend as a witness before an Assam Rifles Court, wilfully or without reasonable excuse, makes default in attending; or
         (b) refuses to take an oath or make an affirmation legally required by an Assam Rifles Court to be taken or made; or
         (c) refuses to produce or deliver any document in his power or control legally required by an Assam Rifles Court to be produced or delivered by him; or
         (d) refuses, when a witness, to answer any question which he is by law bound to answer; or
         (e) is guilty of contempt of the Assam Rifles Court by using insulting or threatening language, or by causing any interruption or disturbance in the proceedings of such Court,
shall, on conviction by an Assam Rifles Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.
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