Section 17. Inamdars to deliver records to authorised officers.

1[CHAPTER IV RECOVERY OF RECORDS 17. Inamdars to deliver records to authorised officers.- (1) Whenever an officer authorised by the State Government in this behalf so directs, an inamdar shall deliver to him or such officer as may be specified in the direction, the records relating to the inam maintained by the inamdar. (2) If the inamdar fails without reasonable cause to deliver any such records he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees. In the case of a continuing failure to deliver any such records, the inamdar shall be punished with an additional fine which may extend to twenty-five rupees for every day during which such failure continues after conviction for the first such failure.]