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Penalties for neglect of duty, etc:- Every police-officer who shall be guilty of any violation of duty or wilful breach or neglect of any rule or regulation of lawful order made by competent authority, or who shall withdraw from the duties of his office without permission, or without having given previous notice for the period of two months, 1[or who, being absent on leave shall fail, without reasonable cause, to report himself for duty on the expiration of such leave] or who shall engage without authority in any employment other than his police duty, or who shall be guilty of cowardice, or who shall offer any unwarrantable personal violence to any person in his custody, shall be liable, on conviction before a Magistrate, to a penalty not exceeding three months’ pay, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding three months, or to both. COMMENTS Any police-officer who commits any actor omission as envisaged by this section shall, be liable to he punished with (i) a penalty upto 3 months' pay; or (ii) imprisonment upto 3 months; or (iii) both penalty and imprisonment. 2[30. Regulation of public assemblies and processions and licensing of the same:- (l) The District Superintendent or Assistant District Superintendent of Police may, as occasion required, direct the conduct of all assemblies and processions on the public roads, or in the public streets or thoroughfares, and prescribe the routes by which, and the times at which, such processions may pass. (2) He may also, on being satisfied that it is intended by any persons or class of persons to convene or collect an assembly in any such road, street or thoroughfare, or to form a procession which would, in the judgment of the Magistrate of the district, or of the sub-division of a district, if uncontrolled, be likely to cause a breach of the peace, 1 Ins. by Act No.8 of 1895, sec. 9. 2 Subs. by Act No.8 of 1895, sec. 10, for the original section. 13 The Police Act, 1861 require by general or special notice that the persons convening or collecting such assembly or directing or promoting such procession shall apply for a license. (3) On such application being made, he may issue a license, specifying the names of the licensees and defining the conditions on which alone such assembly or such procession is to be permitted to take place, and otherwise giving effect to this section: Provided that no fee shall be charged on the application for, or grant of any such license. (4) Music in the streets:- He may also regulate the extent to which music may be used in streets on the occasion of festivals and ceremonies.] COMMENTS The police is empowered to regulate public assemblies and processions and licensing of the same. Violation of any of conditions of the license granted under this section will entail penalty postulated by section 32. 1[3OA. Powers with regard to assemblies and processions violating conditions of licence:- (l) Any Magistrate or District Superintendent of Police or Assistant District Superintendent of Police or Inspector of Police or any police-officer in charge of a station may stop any procession which violates the conditions of a license granted under the last foregoing section, and may order it or any assembly, which violates any such conditions, as aforesaid, to disperse. (2) Any procession or assembly which neglects or refuses to obey any order given under the last preceding sub-section, shall be deemed to be an unlawful assembly]. COMMENTS Violation of any of conditions of a license issued under this section entails penalty stipulated in section 32.