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 Acceptance Centers

 The Central Relief Committee may provide reception centers for the reception and temporary keeping of beggars or it may, by notification, declare any institution to be a reception center for the purposes of this Act.

 

Relief Centres

 The Central Remedial Committee may establish institutions at such places as it may think necessary for the detention, relief and rehabilitation of persons violating the provisions of Section 3 of the Karnataka Begging Prohibition Act and may send thereto or declare any existing institution as a Remedial Center by notification.

 

Management of organizations

 Under the provisions of the Karnataka Begging Prohibition Act, 1975, the Central Relief Committee shall make arrangements for the proper management of the institutions and for the protection of the residents therein.

Procedure and Penalties

 

Registration and Inquiry:-

 Any police officer, or such other officer as may be authorized by the Government by general or special order in this behalf, who finds any person, other than a child, violating the provisions of section 3 of the Karnataka Prohibition of Begging Act, 1975, shall arrest such person and inform him of the reasons for such arrest and shall forthwith shift him to the nearest reception centre. .

The officer-in-charge of the receiving center shall thereupon without delay hold such inquiry as may be prescribed and if he is satisfied that the person will not resort to begging on release, he shall forthwith be released on bail or without bail.

If the person booked under sub-section (1) of the Karnataka Prohibition of Begging Act, 1975 is not immediately released under sub-section (2), the officer in-charge of the reception center shall bring the person booked before the Executive Magistrate or Judicial Magistrate having jurisdiction or the Metropolitan Magistrate from the place where the booking was made. It shall be produced within twenty-four hours of such handover excluding the time necessary for traveling to the court. Provided that no person booked under sub-section (1) shall be detained in custody beyond the said period without the authority of a Magistrate.

Under sub-section (3) of the Karnataka Begging Prohibition Act, 1975, the Magistrate before whom the person is produced shall conduct the trial and if he is satisfied that such person has committed the offense of begging, but he gives an undertaking that he will not commit such offence, he shall release him on furnishing a bond.

Any person released under sub-section (4) of the Karnataka Prohibition of Begging Act, 1975 shall not be released without bail if he is again produced before any Executive Magistrate or Judicial Magistrate or Metropolitan Magistrate for the same offense and the violation of section 3 is proved against him.

 

The Magistrate shall send the beggar to the relief centre:-

 (1) If the person against whom action is taken is again brought before a Magistrate for the same offense or on the ground that such person does not obey or is incapable of obeying the directions contained in the said case, and the Magistrate on inquiry finds that the person has contravened the provisions of section 3, he shall convict him and in such order as may be specified. shall be punished with imprisonment in the nearest correctional center for a term not exceeding twelve months.

(2) An order of detention made by a Magistrate under sub-section (1) may be revoked or varied at any time. Weak, infirm and emaciated beggars and persons suffering from any incurable disease should be seized and sent to receiving centres:-

(1) If any other person, other than a child, is judged to be weak, infirm, emaciated or suffering from any abominable or incurable disease, he shall ascertain from that person whether he has any relatives and if any he shall immediately summon them and if after inquiry it appears to him that the person cannot be saved or any relatives are present. Otherwise the officer-in-charge of the receiving center shall forthwith produce him with a report of his inquiry before the Executive Magistrate or Judicial Magistrate or Metropolitan Magistrate having jurisdiction within a period of twenty-four hours of his seizure from the place of seizure or the time necessary for traveling to the Magistrate's Court.

Provided, that no person so seized shall be detained in custody beyond a period of twenty-four hours without the authority of a Magistrate.

(2) If a person brought before a Magistrate is found, on inquiry by such Magistrate, to have contravened the provisions of section 3, the Magistrate shall convict him and sentence him to imprisonment in the nearest correctional center for such term not exceeding twelve months as may be specified in the order and such Magistrate may at any time revoke or vary the order of detention made by the Magistrate. can do

 

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