Section 16: Offences
consolidated text (as amended). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
16. Offences
Any person who—
(a) fails to attend the Commission after having been required to do
so;
(b) refuses to take an oath before the Commission or to answer fully
and satisfactorily to the best of his knowledge and belief any
question lawfully put to him in any proceedings before the
Commission or to produce any document when required so to do
by the Commission;
(c) knowingly gives false evidence, or evidence which he knows to
be misleading, before the Commission; or
(d) at any hearing of the Commission—
(i) insults a member;
(ii) interrupts the proceedings,
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shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not
exceeding 10,000 rupees and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one
year.