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Section 70

Civil Offence Not Triable by Court-martial.

The Army Act, 1950
A person subject to this Act who commits an offence of murder against a person not subject to military, naval or air force law, or of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against such a person or of rape in relation to such a person, shall not be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Act and shall not be tried by a court-martial, unless he commits any of the said offences--

(a) while on active service, or

(b) at any place outside India, or

(c) at a frontier post specified by the Central Government by notification in this behalf.

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1. The Explanation omitted by Act 13 of 1975, s. 3 (w.e.f. 25-1-1975).