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. otherwise than in pursuance of a contract made with a distributing licensee orother electricity undertaking, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shallbe liable on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, in addition to apenalty of not less than ten thousand rupees and not exceeding fifty thousandrupees, to a fine in a sum of money being the value of the loss or damage causedto the licencee as a result of the act or default constituting such offence, and anysum recovered as such additional fine shall be paid to the licencee on applicationmade to Court by such licencee.”CONCLUSIONThe PPPR highlighted similar level of abuses of public resources for electionpropaganda work in its previous report. However the authorities have failed totake notice of the abuses highlighted by the PPPR, resulting in a significantincrease in the level of abuse. Therefore, it’s doubtful as to whether this electioncan be considered as ‘free and fair’ election when taking into account the level ofabuse of public resources at the Parliamentary election 2010.-111-