law: Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007 
  Chapter IV Punishments
  51.  Punishment by Force Courts.
  1.       Punishments
  
  may be inflicted in respect of offences committed by persons subject to this
  
  Act and convicted by Force Courts according to the scale following, namely:.
  a.     
  
    death;
  b.    
  
    imprisonment which may be for the term of life or any other
  
  lesser term but excluding imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months in
  
  Force custody;
  c.     
  
    dismissal or removal from the service;
  d.    
  
    compulsory retirement from the service;
  e.     
  
    imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months in Force
  
  custody;
  f.     
  
    reduction to the ranks or to a lower rank or grade or a place in
  
  the list of their rank in the case of an under-officer;
  g.    
  
    reduction to next lower rank in case of an officer or
  
  subordinate officer:
  Provided that no officer shall be reduced to a rank lower than
  
  the one to which he was initially appointed;
  a.      
  b.      
  c.      
  d.      
  e.      
  f.      
  g.      
  h.     
  
    forfeiture of seniority of rank and forfeiture of all or any
  
  part of the service for the purpose of promotion;
  i.      
  
    forfeiture of service for the purpose of increased pay or
  
  pension;
  j.      
  
    fine, in respect of civil offences;
  k.     
  
    severe reprimand or reprimand except in the case of persons
  
  below the rank of an under-officer;
  l.      
  
    forfeiture of pay and allowances for a period not exceeding
  
  three months for an offence committed on active duty;
  m.   
  
    forfeiture in the case of person sentenced to dismissal from the
  
  service of all arrears of pay and allowances and other public money due to him
  
  at the time of such dismissal;
  n.     
  
    Stoppage of pay and allowances until any proved loss or damage
  
  occasioned by the offence for which he is convicted is made good.
  2.       Each of
  
  the punishments specified in sub-section (1 ) shall be deemed to be
  
  inferior in degree to every punishment preceding it in the above scale.