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5. The main thrust of the petitioner is that the detenu should not have been awarded the punishment of ten years imprisonment by the Division Bench of the Madurai Bench of this Court, since nowhere in the old Act it has been contemplated that the minimum period of sentence for an offence under Section 3 of the Explosive Substances Act is ten years.
6. For better appreciation of this aspect and for the sake of convenience, Section 3 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908, prior to amendment is extracted hereunder:
7. The Explosive Substances Act was amended and substituted by Act 54 of 2001 with effect from 1.2.2002. Section 3, after amendment, reads as follows:
"3. Punishment for causing explosion likely to endanger life or property Any person who unlawfully and maliciously causes by -
(a) any explosive substance an explosion of a nature likely to endager life or to cause serious injury to property shall, whether any injury to person or property has been actually caused or not, be punished with imprisonment for life, or with rigorous imprisonment of either description which shall not be less than ten years, and shall also be liable to fine;