Section 30 of Himachal Pradesh Urban Rent Control Act, 1987

Penalties.- (1) If any person contravenes any of the provisions of 

section 10, section 11, section 12 or section 29, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees. (2) If any person contravenes any of the provisions of clause (a) of section 7 or section 8, he shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to two years and with fine. (3) The specified landlord or widow, widower, mother, father, child, grandchild or widowed daughter-in-law of such landlord, as the case may be. 22 THE HIMACHAL PRADESH URBAN RENT CONTROL ACT, 1987 who having evicted tenant from a building in pursuance of an order made under sub-section (2) of section 15 does not occupy it for a continuous period of three months from the date of such eviction or lets out the whole or any part of such building, from which the tenant was evicted, to any person other than the tenant shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or both. (4) No court inferior to that of a magistrate of first class shall try any offence punishable under this Act. (5) No court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under this Act, unless the complaint in respect of the offence has been made within three months from the date of the commission of the offence.