The General Clauses Act, 1897
Where an act or omission constitutes an offence under two or more enactments, then the offender shall be liable to be prosecuted and punished under either or any of those enactments, but shall not be liable to be punished twice for the same offence.
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Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The General Clauses Act, 1897, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/15374/1/the_general_clauses_act,_1897.pdf, 549,254 bytes, sha256 ef4645f24759ec1e...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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