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Enhanced penalty on subsequent coi!Viction.-Whoever, having already been convicted of an offence under this Act or of"an abetment of such offence, is again convicted .of any such offence or abetment shall, on every such subsequent convicti?q, be punishable with impri. sonment for a term which shall not be le"5S than one month but which may extend to one year an.d With fil}e. Vl{h1ch shall not be less than two hundred rupees but which,.m~y exte~S{ to one thousand (upecs . .! .. .. •