129. Security for good behaviour from habitual offenders.
When an Executive Magistrate receives information that there is within his local jurisdiction a person who—
- is by habit a robber, house-breaker, thief, or forger; or
- is by habit a receiver of stolen property knowing the same to have been stolen; or
- habitually protects or harbours thieves, or aids in the concealment or disposal of stolen property; or
- habitually commits, or attempts to commit, or abets the commission of, the offence of kidnapping, abduction, extortion, cheating or mischief, or any offence punishable under Chapter VIII of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; or
- habitually commits, or attempts to commit, or abets the commission of, offences involving a breach of the peace; or
- is so desperate and dangerous as to render his being at large without security hazardous to the community,
such Magistrate may, in the manner hereinafter provided, require such person to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond, with or without sureties, for his good behaviour for such period, not exceeding three years, as the Magistrate thinks fit.