law: Contact Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970
  27. Limitation of prosecutions
  No court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under
  
  this Act unless the complaint thereof is made within three months from the date
  
  on which the alleged commission of the offence came to the knowledge of an
  
  inspector:
  PROVIDED that where the offence consists of disobeying
  
  a written order made by an inspector, complaint, thereof may be made within six
  
  months of the date on which the offence is alleged to have been committed.