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 115: Conviction of offences not charged.
    A person charged before an Assam Rifles Court—
         (a) with desertion may be found guilty of attempting to desert or of being absent without leave;
         (b) with attempting to desert may be found guilty of being absent without leave;
         (c) with using criminal force may be found guilty of assault;
         (d) with using threatening language may be found guilty of using insubordinate language;
         (e) with any one of the offences specified in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) of section 39 may be found guilty of any other of these offences with which he might have been charged;
         (f) with an offence punishable under section 55 may be found guilty of any other offence of which he might have been found guilty, if the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), were applicable;
         (g) with any offence under this Act may, on failure of proof of an offence having been committed in circumstances involving a more severe punishment, be found guilty of the same offence as having been committed in circumstances involving a less severe punishment;
         (h) with any offence under this Act may be found guilty of having attempted or abetted the commission of that offence, although the attempt or abetment is not separately charged
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