Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Rule 14 of the Principal Rules shall be substituted as follows (14)(i) All inhabitants of the State of Nagaland shall be bound to aid the regular police and the rural police when required to do so for the maintenance of law and order or the apprehension of offenders. Any person failing to do so shall be liable to fine not exceeding Rs. 250/- for each such failure to be adjudged by the Mauzadars, Gaonburas, Chiefs, Headmen of Kheis or other Chief Village authority or by the Deputy Commissioner, Additional Deputy Commissioner or such other officers as may be authorised by the state Government in that behalf. Provided that before imposition of any such fine the inhabitant concerned may he given an opportunity of being heard in person, if the circumstances so permit. (2) if it appears to the Deputy Commissioner that the inhabitants of any particular area are abetting the. commission of heinous offences or harbouring persons concerned in the commission of such offences or are failing and/or neglecting to render due assistance to apprehend the offender or offenders concerned with such offences or are suppressing material evidence relating to the commission of such offences, the Deputy Commissioner after holding such summary enquiry in the matter as may be considered appropriate and giving such opportunity as may he possible, under the circumstances to the inhabitants concerned, may impose collective fine on the inhabitants of the area for reason to be recorded in writing. Any order imposing such collective fine shall be published in the Official Gazette and may also be brought to the notice of the inhabitants concerned by such manner as may he considered appropriate. (3) The Deputy Commissioner or any officer empowered in this behalf by the State Government by general or special order may exempt any inhabitant or class or section of such inhabitants from payment of any portion of such fine imposed for reason to be recorded in writing. (4) The Deputy Commissioner, after holding such enquiry as may be deemed necessary, shall apportion the collective fine imposed amongst the inhabitants liable for payment of such fine taking into consideration the respective means of such inhabitants, and the portion of such collective fine payable by any inhabitant may be recovered in the same manner as provided in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, for realisation of fine imposed on an offender as a sentence by the Court. III —CRIMINAL JUSTICE