law: Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007 
  21.  Absence without leave.
  Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following
  
  offences, namely:.
  a.       absents
  
  himself without leave; or
  b.      without
  
  sufficient cause overstays leave granted to him; or
  c.       being
  
  on leave of absence and having received information from the appropriate
  
  authority that any battalion or part thereof or any other unit of the Force, to
  
  which he belongs, has been ordered on active duty, fails, without sufficient
  
  cause, to rejoin without delay; or
  d.      without
  
  sufficient cause fails to appear at the time fixed at the parade or place
  
  appointed for exercise or duty; or
  e.       when on
  
  parade, or on the line of march, without sufficient cause or without leave from
  
  his superior officer, quits the parade or line of march; or
  f.       when in
  
  camp or elsewhere, is found beyond any limits fixed or in any place prohibited,
  
  by any general, local or other order, without a pass or written leave from his
  
  superior officer; or
  g.      without
  
  leave from his superior officer or without due cause, absents himself from any
  
  school or training institution when duly ordered to attend there, shall, on
  
  conviction by a Force Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which
  
  may extend to three years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.