https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=197962 Section 54 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, as amended in 2003, permits compounding of an offence on payment of money and requires the suspected person to be discharged without further proceedings, but it does not confer any express power to forfeit seized property. Forfeiture under Section 39(1)(d) applies only where the vehicle, vessel, weapon, trap or tool has actually been used in committing the offence and that use has been legally established, while Section 51(2) provides forfeiture on conviction by the trying court. The seizure provisions in Section 50 require seized property to be produced before the Magistrate. An executive officer could not imply a penal forfeiture power from the omission of earlier language, so the forfeiture order was unsustainable. en-us Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 30 Jun 2018 18:03:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=197962 Section 54 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, as amended in 2003, permits compounding of an offence on payment of money and requires the suspected person to be discharged without further proceedings, but it does not confer any express power to forfeit seized property. Forfeiture under Section 39(1)(d) applies only where the vehicle, vessel, weapon, trap or tool has actually been used in committing the offence and that use has been legally established, while Section 51(2) provides forfeiture on conviction by the trying court. The seizure provisions in Section 50 require seized property to be produced before the Magistrate. An executive officer could not imply a penal forfeiture power from the omission of earlier language, so the forfeiture order was unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=197962