Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007
35. Making away with equipment.
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following
offences, namely:.
a. makes
away with, or is concerned in making away with, any arms, ammunition,
equipment, instruments, tools, clothing or any other thing being the property
of the Government issued to him for his use or entrusted to him; or
b. loses
by neglect anything mentioned in clause (a ); or
c. sells,
pawns, destroys or defaces any medal or decoration granted to him, shall, on
conviction by a Force Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which
may extend, in the case of the offences specified in clause (a ), to ten
years, and in the case of the offences, specified in the other clauses, to five
years, or in either case such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.