Compounding of offences.

<span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>1</i>) Any officer of the State Government or of the local authority, authorized by the State Government or, as the case may be, by the local authority, in this behalf, may accept from any person who has committed or who is reasonably suspected of having committed the first or second offence under this Act, a sum of money by way of compounding of the offence as specified in the Table below:-<br> <center class="font1">TABLE</center> <table style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;border-collapse: collapse;"><thead><tr><th id="tableincontent" style="text-align: center;min-width: 100px;padding: 10px;background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #fff 0, #fff 100%);"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="border:1px solid black;height: 50px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top; min-width: 100px; padding: 10px;"><center class="font1">Sr.<br> No.</center></td><td style="border:1px solid black;height: 50px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top; min-width: 100px; padding: 10px;"><center class="font1">Contravention/offence</center> </td><td style="border:1px solid black;height: 50px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top; min-width: 100px; padding: 10px;"><center class="font1">The sum of money to be accepted for <br>compounding of an offence</center></td></tr><tr><td style="border:1px solid black;height: 50px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top; min-width: 100px; padding: 10px;"><center class="font1">(1)</center></td><td style="border:1px solid black;height: 50px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top; min-width: 100px; padding: 10px;"><center class="font1">(2)</center> </td><td style="border:1px solid black;height: 50px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top; min-width: 100px; padding: 10px;"><center class="font1">(3)</center></td></tr><tr><td style="border:1px solid black;height: 50px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top; min-width: 100px; padding: 10px;"><center class="font1">1</center></td><td style="border:1px solid black;height: 50px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top; min-width: 100px; padding: 10px;">First offence<span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>...</td><td style="border:1px solid black;height: 50px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top; min-width: 100px; padding: 10px;"><center class="font1">Five thousand rupees.</center></td></tr><tr><td style="border:1px solid black;height: 50px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top; min-width: 100px; padding: 10px;"><center class="font1">2</center></td><td style="border:1px solid black;height: 50px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top; min-width: 100px; padding: 10px;">Second offence<span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>...</td><td style="border:1px solid black;height: 50px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top; min-width: 100px; padding: 10px;"><center class="font1">Ten thousand rupees.</center></td></tr></tbody></table><br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>2</i>) On payment of money in accordance with sub-section (<i>1</i>), any person in custody in connection with that offence shall be set at liberty and no proceeding shall be instituted or continued against such person in any criminal court.<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>3</i>) The acceptance of sum of money for compounding of an offence in accordance with sub-section (<i>1</i>) shall be deemed to be an acquittal within the meaning of section 300 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).<br>