Border Security Force Act,1968

Act No : 47

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Section : Subsequent fitness of lunatic accused for trial.

100. Subsequent fitness of lunatic accused for trial. Where any accused person, having been found by reason of unsoundness of mind to be incapable of making his defence, is in custody or under detention under section 99, any officer prescribed in this behalf, may- (a) if such person is in custody under sub-section (4) of section 99, on the report of a medical officer that he is capable of making his defence, or (b) if such person is detained in a jail under sub-section (5) of section 99, on a certificate of the Inspector General of Prisons, and if such person is detained in a lunatic asylum under the said sub-section,on a certificate of any two or more of the visitors of such asylum and if he is detained in any other place under that sub-section, on a certificate of the prescribed authority, that he is 426 capable of making his defence, take steps to have such person tried by the same or another Security Force Court for the offence with which he was originally charged or, if the offence is a civil offence, by a criminal court.

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