Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
It will not except in obediance to a rule or order made by the State Government or by the competent authority, be incumbent on the police to prosecute for an offence punishable under section 117, 119, 131, 134, 137, 139, 140 or 144, when such offence has occasioned serious mischief and has been promptly desisted from on warnish. 2[151A. (1) A Court taking cognizance of an offence punishable under clause (v) of section 131, for contravention of a rule or order made under clause (b) or (c) of sub-section (1) of section 33, may state upon the summons to be served on the accused person that he may, by a specified, date prior to the hearing of the charge plead guilty to the charge by registered letter and remit to the Court such sum, not exceeding twenty-five rupees, as the Court may specify. ( 2) When an accused person pleads guilty and remits the sum specified, no further proceeding in respect of the offence shall be taken against him.]