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Limitation of suit and prosecutions: (1) No Magistrate shall take cognizance of any offence charged against any Excise and Narcotics or Police personnel for the commission of an offence in course of the performance of duty under this Act unless the prosecution is instituted within three months of the commission of the act complained of. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in any other law for the time being in force, when any Excise & Narcotics or Police personnel is accused of any offence to have committed by him while acting or purporting to act in the discharge of his official duty under this Act, no Court shall take cognizance of such offence, except with the previous sanction of the Government under section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and section 19 of the Prevention of the Corruption Act, 1988, as the case may be.