Section 17:
Mutiny.
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to
say,—
(a) begins, incites, causes or conspires with any other person to cause any mutiny in the Security
Guard or in the military, naval, air forces or any other armed force of India or any forces co-operating
therewith; or
(b) joins in any such mutiny; or
(c) being present at any such mutiny, does not use his utmost endeavours to suppress the same; or
(d) knowing or having reason to believe in the existence of any such mutiny, or of any intention
to mutiny or of any such conspiracy, does not, without delay, give information thereof to his
Commander or other superior officer; or
(e) endeavours to seduce any person in the Security Guard or in the military, naval, air forces or
any other armed force of India or any forces co-operating therewith from his duty or allegiance to the
Union,shall, on conviction by a Security Guard Court, be liable to suffer death or such less punishment as is in
this Act mentioned.