Section 11. Place of imprisonment

11. (1) A person sentenced under this Act to imprisonment for a period exceeding three months, shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the Police Act, 1861, be deemed to have been dismissed from 2[Uttar Pradesh] Police Force and from the 1[Pradeshik Armed Constabulary] and shall be imprisoned in the nearest or such other jail as the 3[State Government] may, by general or special order, direct. (2) A person sentenced under this Act to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months may, if the Commandant, or subject to his control, an Assistant Commandant, so directs, be confined in the quarter-guard or such other place as the Commandant or Assistant Commandant may consider suitable.