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Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions. 2 THE PREVENTION OF INSULTS TO NATIONAL HONOUR ACT, 1971 ACT NO. 69 OF 1971 [23rd December, 1971.] An Act to prevent insults to national honour. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—