Custom Act, 1962
127H.
POWER OF SETTLEMENT COMMISSION TO GRANT IMMUNITY FROM PROCECUTION AND PENALTY.
(1)
The Settlement Commission may, if it is satisfied that any person who made the
application for settlement under section 127B has co-operated with the
Settlement Commission in the proceedings before it and has made a full and true
disclosure of his duty liability, grant to such person, subject to such
conditions as it may think fit to impose, immunity from prosecution for any
offence under this Act or under the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) or under any
other Central Act for the time being in force and also either wholly or in part
from the imposition of any penalty, fine and interest under this Act, with
respect to the case covered by the settlement:
Provided
that no such immunity shall be granted
by the Settlement Commission in cases where the proceedings for the prosecution
for any such offence have been instituted before the date of receipt of the
application under section 127B.
(2)
An immunity granted to a person under sub-section (1) shall stand withdrawn if
such person, fails to pay any sum specified in the order of the settlement
passed under sub-section (7) of section 125fC within the time specified in such
order or within such further time as may be allowed by the Settlement
Commission, or fails to comply with any other condition subject to which the
immunity was granted and thereupon the provisions of this Act shall apply as if
such immunity had not been granted.
(3)
An immunity granted to a person under sub-section(1)may, at any time, be
withdrawn by the Settlement Commission, if it is satisfied that such person had,
in the course of the settlement proceedings, concealed any particulars,
material to the settlement or had given false evidence, and thereupon such
person may be tried for the offence with respect to which the immunity was
granted or for any other offence of which he appears to have been guilty in
connection with the settlement and shall also become liable to the imposition
of any penalty under this Act to which such person would have been liable, had
no such immunity been granted.