Insubordination and obstruction

Section 29 of the Assam Rifles Act, 2006 deals with insubordination and obstruction. Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,— (a) being concerned in any quarrel, affray or disorder, refuses to obey any officer, though of inferior rank, who orders him into arrest, or uses criminal force to or assaults any such officer; The Act came into force on 20 Feb 2006.

Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,—

(a) being concerned in any quarrel, affray or disorder, refuses to obey any officer, though of inferior rank, who orders him into arrest, or uses criminal force to or assaults any such officer; or

(b) uses criminal force to, or assaults any person, whether subject to this Act or not, in whose custody he is lawfully placed, and whether he is or is not his superior officer; or

(c) resists an escort whose duty it is to apprehend him or to have him in charge; or

(d) breaks out of barracks, camp or quarters; or

(e) neglects to obey any general, local or other order ;or

(f) impedes the Force Police referred to in section 85 or any person lawfully acting on its behalf, or when called upon, refuses to assist in the execution of his duty a Force Police or any person lawfully acting on his behalf,

shall, on conviction by an Assam Rifles Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend, in the case of the offences specified in clauses (d) and (e), to two years, and in the case of the offences specified in the other clauses, to ten years, or in either case such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.

Section 29, The Assam Rifles Act, 2006 (Act 47 of 2006).