law: The Foreigners Act, 1946
  14. Penalties. -
  If any person contravenes the provisions of
  
  this Act or of any order made thereunder , or any
  
  direction given in pursuance of this Act or such, he shall be punished with
  
  imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years and shall also be liable
  
  to fine; and if such person has entered into a bond in pursuance of Clause (f) of
  
  sub-section (2) of Section 3, his bond shall be forfeited, and any person bound
  
  thereby shall pay the penalty thereof, or show cause to the satisfaction of the
  
   convincting Court why such penalty should not be
  
  paid.
  Comments
  Petitioner, a Pakistani national had entered
  
  India unauthorisedly via Bangladesh without any valid
  
  passport, visa and he had not informed any authority about his entry and stay
  
  in India and not got himself registered as a citizen of India. He has clearly contravened
  
   cl . 3(1) and cl . 7(2) of
  
  Foreigners Act, 1948 and committed offence under Sections 13 and 14 of the
  
  Foreigners Act ( Mohd . Anwar 
  
  v. State of Bihar 1992 Cr. L.J. 48).