Section 12
Penalties
12. Penalties:
(1) If, in making survey and measurement or setting up control point stations, any person obstructs, or causes someone to obstruct, the survey and measurement of land or setting up of such stations by disfiguring fences or signals, instigating people or manhandling or otherwise, the prescribed authority may punish such a person making such obstruction with a fine of up to Fifty Rupees for the first time, of Fifty to One Hundred Rupees for the second time and of One Hundred to FiveHundred Rupees for the third time or with imprisonment for a term of Six
months or with both.
(2) If a person is held to have made a false complaint that there is any kind of alternation in the land surveyed and measured pursuant to Section 8, the prescribed authority may punish such a person making such
false complaint with a fine of up to One Hundred Rupees.
(3) (76) The chief of Land Revenue Office 77 may fine the Jimidar who does not prepare and submit records within the time-limit pursuant to Section 3A. with up to Five Hundred Rupees, the Patuwari who does not
prepare and submit the same within the said time-limit with up to Three Hundred Rupees or the Jimidar or Patuwari who does not appear or send his or her representative with up to Five Hundred Rupees for the absence of
each day.
(4) 78 If any person shifts, demolishes or destroys or otherwise damages a control point station without the approval of the Department of Survey, the prescribed authority may recover the amount of such damages as well as the costs involved in the re-installation or repair of the control point station and also fine such a person with up to One Thousand Rupees. The prescribed authority may recover the amount of expenses incurred from the false complaint from the person who makes such false complaints in this respect and fine such a person with up to Five Hundred Rupees.
(5) 79 If any person does any act or action without obtaining permission pursuant to Section 11D., the prescribed authority may fine such a person with up to Twenty Thousand Rupees and all surveys and maps as well as other materials related with the action or act done or taken without obtaining permission shall be confiscated.
(6) 80 If any person does any other act or action in contravention of this Act, the prescribed authority may fine such a person with up to Ten Thousand Rupees.