The Maharashtra Home Guards Act.
Section 5. Powers, protection and control.
(1) A member of the Home Guards when called out under section 4 shall have the same powers, privileges and protection as an officer of police appointed under any Act for the time being in force.
(2) No prosecution shall be instituted against a member of the Home Guards in respect of anything done or purporting to be done by him in the discharge of his functions 1[or duties] as such member, except with the previous sanction of the Commissioner of Police, Bombay, in Greater Bombay, and of the District Magistrate, elsewhere.
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