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(1) No Court shall take cognizance of any offence under this Act lion when the accused person or any one of the accused persons is a police officer, police except on a report in wFiting of the facts constituting such offence by, or with the previous sanction of, an officer authorised by the Gove6inent in this behalf. (2) No Court below that of a Magistrate of the first dass shall try any offence under this Act when the accused person or any one of the accused persons is a police officer. Power to 11 2. (1) The Commissioner may, by ndtification, make regulations to make regulations P rovide that no person in the area under his charge, other than a member of regarding the armed forces of the Union or of the Central Police Organisations while carrying weapons acting as such or a police officer, shall go armed with any sword, spear, WilhOu' bludgeon, gun or other offensive weapon or with any explosive or corrosive aulhority. substance in any street or public place unless so authorised by such, authority as may be specified in such regulations. (2) Any regulation made under sub-section (1) may provide that any police officer may seize any weapon, firearm or other substance carried in contravention of such regulation, and the weapon or firearm or other substance so seized shall be forfeited to the Government, unless redeemed within two months by payment of such fine, not exceeding one thousand rupees, as the Commissioner may impose. Prosecu-