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Any officer or person exercising powers under this Act, who vexatiously and unnecessarily delays forwarding to the nearest Excise Officer or to the officer in charge of the nearest police station as required by sub-section (2) of section 58 any person arrested, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees. Penalty for abetment of escape of persons arrested, etc.