Section 30 of Arms Act is bailable offence or non bailable offence?

[Anonymous]

Whether section 30 of the Arms Act is bailable offence or non bailable?

[Dr. Ashok Dhamija]

Section 30 of the Arms Act, 1959, is reproduced below:

“30. Punishment for contravention of licence or rule.—Whoever contravenes any condition of a licence or any provision of this Act or any rule made thereunder, for which no punishment is provided elsewhere in this Act, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, or with both.”

Thus, the maximum punishment for the offence under this section is imprisonment for 6 months. Therefore, in view of the provisions of the First Schedule to the Criminal Procedure Code, this offence would be bailable.

     

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