law: Electricity Act, 2003
  152. Compounding of
  
  offences.-
  
  1.     
  
    Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), the
  
  Appropriate Government or any officer authorised by it in this behalf may
  
  accept from any consumer or person who committed or who is reasonably suspected
  
  of having committed an offence of theft of electricity punishable under this
  
  Act, a sum of money by way of compounding of the offence as specified in the
  
  Table below:
   TABLE
  Provided
  
  that  
  
  the Appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, amend
  
  the rates specified in the Table above.
  1.     
  
  
  2.     
  
    On
  
  payment of the sum of money in accordance with sub-section (1), any person in
  
  custody in connection with that offence shall be set at liberty and no
  
  proceedings shall be instituted or continued against such consumer or person in
  
  any criminal court.
  3.     
  
    The
  
  acceptance of the sum of money for compounding an offence in accordance with
  
  sub-section (1) by the Appropriate Government or an officer empowered in this
  
  behalf shall be deemed to amount to an acquittal within the meaning of section
  
  300 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).
  4.     
  
    The
  
  compounding of an offence under sub-section (1) shall be allowed only once for
  
  any person or consumer.