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Whoever opposes or disobeys or fails to conform to any direction issued under section 55, 56, 1[57 or63AA] or abets opposition to or disobedience of any such direction shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment which may extend to one year but shall not, except for reasons to be recorded in writing, be less than four months, and shall also be liable to fine. 2[142. Without prejudice to the power to arrest and remove a person in the cirumstances and in the manner provided in section 62, any person who- (a) in contravention of a direction issued to him under section 55, 56, 57 or 63AA enters or returns without permission to the area, or any district or districts or part thereof, from which he was directed to remove himself; (b) enters or returns to any such area or district aforesaid or part thereof with permission granted under sub-section (2) of section 62, but fails, contrary to the provisions thereof, to remove himself outside such area at the expiry of the temporary period for which he was permited to enter or return or on the earlier revocation of such permission, on having removed himself at the expiry of such temporary period or on revocation of the permission, enters or returns thereafter without fresh permission, shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, but shall not, except for reasons to be recorded in writing be less than six months, and shall also be liable to fine.) l. These figures, word and letters were substituted for the word figures "or 57" by Born. I of 1956, s. 15.