Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007
18. Offences punishable more severely on active
duty than at other times.
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following
offences, namely:.
a. forces
a safeguard, or forces or uses criminal force to a sentry; or
b. breaks
into any house or other place in search of plunder; or
c. being a
sentry, sleeps upon his post or is intoxicated; or
d. without
orders from his superior officer leaves his guard, picket, patrol or post; or
e. intentionally
or through neglect occasions a false alarm in camp or quarters, or spreads or
causes to be spread reports calculated to create unnecessary alarm or
despondency; or
f. makes
known the parole, watchword or countersign to any person not entitled to
receive it; or knowingly gives a parole, watchword or a countersign different
from what he received, shall, on conviction by a Force Court,.
i.
if he commits any such offence when on active duty, be liable to
suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years or such less
punishment as is in this Act mentioned; and
ii.
if he commits any such offence when not on active duty, be
liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years or
such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.