Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007
52. Alternative punishments by Force Courts.
Subject to the provisions of this Act, a Force Court may, on
convicting a person subject to this Act of any of the offences specified in
sections 16 to 48 (both inclusive) award either the particular punishment with
which the offence is stated in the said sections to be punishable or, in lieu
thereof, any one of the punishments lower in the scale set out in section 51
regard being had to the nature and degree of the offence.