25/11/2012
The Inner Line Permit is the permit system under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873 where no citizen from other parts of India (outsider) are not allowed to enter the boundary of a State without a valid pass issued by a competent authority under the regulation. These passes are usually issued by the State Deputy Resident Commissioner/Deputy Commissioners/any other officer authorized by the State Government. The main objective of the Inner Line Permit system is to provide a special protection of the distinct identity and safeguard for the peaceful existence of the indigenous people of the state.
If any person so prohibited enters the such line without a pass shall be liable to conviction before a magistrate (to imprisonment of either description which may extend to one year, to fine not exceeding Rs. 1000 or to both). The pass will be issued by the competent authority and will require payment of such duties and fees as the State Government may deem proper.
Any rubber, wax, ivory or other forest product (or any book, diary, manuscript, map, picture, photograph, film, curio or article of religious or scientific interest) found in the possession of any person convicted of any offence under this Act may be confiscated to State Government by an order to be passed at the time of conviction by the Magistrate.
If the Magistrate has reason to believe that any article which if found in the possession of a person convicted under this Act would have been liable to confiscation under sub-section (l) has been acquired or wholly or partly written, made or taken by such person beyond "the Inner Line", the Magistrate after giving the person in whose possession the article is found an opportunity to show cause why an order the subsection should not be passed in respect of the article any, unless it is proved that the article was not acquired, written, made or taken as aforesaid, order that such article be confiscated to Government.
It shall not be lawful for any person, not being the native of the district to acquire any interest in land or other product of land without sanction of the state Government.
