69. No person
| (a) shall, at any time during the period commencing from the first day of the nomination period in respect of an election and ending one week after the result of the poll taken at such election is declared by the returning officer under this Act, conduct, hold or take part in any procession, other than a procession on May 1 in the year, or any procession for religious or social purposes ; or |
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| (b) shall, at any procession held or conducted during the period referred to in paragraph (a), do any act or thing calculated to promote the election referred to in the said paragraph (a). |
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Every person who contravenes any of the preceding provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to fine not exceeding one hundred rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding one month or to both such fine and imprisonment. |
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