State Act

THE UTTAR PRADESH CONTROL OF GOONDAS ACT, 1970

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-- (a) "District Magistrate” includes an Additional District Magistrate specially empowered by the State Government in that behalf ; 2[(b) "Goonda" means a person who- ---- (1) either my himself or as a member or leader of a gang, habitually commits or attempts to commit, or abets the commission offence punishable under section 153 or section 153-B or section 294 of the Indian panel code or chapter XV, chapter XVI, chapter XVII or chapter XXII of the said code; or (2) has been converted for an offence punishable under the supersession of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, 1956; or (3) has been converted not less than thrice for an offence punishable under the U.P. excise Act, 1910 or the Public Gambling Act, 1867 or section 25, section 27, or section 29 of the Arms Act, 1959; or (4) is generally reputed to be a person, who is dispirit and dangerous to the community; or (5) has been habitually passing in descent remarks of teasing women or girls; or (6) is a tout; Explanation— Tout means a person who- (a) Accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain from any person for himself or for any other person, any gratification whatever as a motive or reward for inducing, by corrupt or illegal means any public servant or member of government, Parliament or of state legislature, to do or forbear to do any thing or to show favor or disfavor to any person or to render or attempt to render any service or disservice to any person, with the Central or State Government, Parliament or State Legislature, any Local Athuority, Corporation, Government Company or Public Servant; or (b) Procures, in consideration of any remuneration moving from any legal practitioner interested in any legal business, or proposes to any legal practitioner or to do any person interested in legal business to procure, in consideration of any remuneration moving from either of them, the employment of legal practitioner in such business; or (c) For the proposes mentioned in explanation (a) or (b), frequent the presents of civil, Criminal or Revenue courts, revenue or other officers, residential colonies or residential or vicinity of the aforesaid or railway or bus station, handing stages lodging places or other places of public resorts ; or (7) is a house grabber. Explanation – ‘House- grabber’ means a person who takes or attempts to take or aids or abates in taking unauthorized passions or having lawfully interred unlawfully remains in passions, of a building including land, garden, garage or out-house apartment to a building.]1