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If the prescribed authority, after making such unlawfully re- enquiry as it may deem fit, is satisfied that a landowner ) has recovered any rent, cess, rate or {ax or received any ‘service from any tenant in contravention of the provi- sions of section 12, the prescribed authority may direct the landowner— (a) to pay the Government as penalty a sum not exceeding ten times the excess amount re- covered; and (b) to refund to the tenant the excess amount re- covered from him; or (¢) where the landowner has received any service from any tenant to pay to the tenant such sum by way of compensation as the prescribed authority may think fit, Bar on eviction