Disobedience to quarantine rule
AI Assist
Summary
Knowingly disobeying Government rules that put any transport into quarantine, that regulate movement of quarantined transport, or that control movement between places where an infectious disease prevails and other places is an offence. The penalty can be imprisonment for up to six months, or a fine, or both.
Example
Priya runs a passenger bus between a town where an infectious disease is spreading and a nearby city. Government rules ban such trips but she knowingly continues to run the service. She can be punished with up to six months imprisonment, or a fine, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever knowingly disobeys any rule made by the Government for putting any mode of transport into a state of quarantine, or for regulating the intercourse of any such transport in a state of quarantine or for regulating the intercourse between places where an infectious disease prevails and other places, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both.
BNSS Classification
- Imprisonment for 6 months, or fine, or both.
- Non-cognizable
- Bailable
- Triable by Any Magistrate.
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