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Section 3 — Punishment o f grave breaches of conventions

From: The Geneva Conventions Act, 1960

3. Punishment o f grave breaches of conventions .

(1)If any person within or without India commits or attempts to commit, or abets or procures the commission by any other person of, a grave breach of any of the Conventions he shall be punished, -
(a)Where the offence involves the wilful killing of a person protected by any of the Conventions, with death or with imprisonment for life; and
(b)in any other case, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years.
(2)Sub -section ( 1) appli es to persons regardless of their nationality or citizenship.
(3)For the purposes of this section, -
(a)a grave breach of the First Convention is a breach of that Convention involving an act referred to in article 50 of that Convention committed against p ersons or property protected by that Convention;