Section 30. Penalty for withholding property, etc.

If any person wilfully withholds or fails to deliver to an Indian insurance company as required by section 29 any property or any books, documents or other papers which may be in his possession or unlawfully retains possession of any property of an existing insurer which has been transferred to and vested in an Indian insurance company under section 5 or wilfully applies any such property to purposes other than those expressed in or authorised by this Act, he shall, on the complaint of the Indian insurance company, be 1[liable to penalty which may extend to fifty lakh rupees or the value of the property, whichever is higher, in respect of each contravention, and if he persists in such contravention, to a further penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees for every day during which the contravention continues].