law: Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007 
  52.  Alternative punishments by Force Courts.
  Subject to the provisions of this Act, a Force Court may, on
  
  convicting a person subject to this Act of any of the offences specified in
  
  sections 16 to 48 (both inclusive) award either the particular punishment with
  
  which the offence is stated in the said sections to be punishable or, in lieu
  
  thereof, any one of the punishments lower in the scale set out in section 51
  
  regard being had to the nature and degree of the offence.