Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts- Penalty for tendering false or fabricated message to any telecommunication officer &c
| 48. Every person who transmits or causes to be transmitted or tenders or causes to be tendered to any telecommunication officer or to any person having official duties in connection with a telecommunication service for transmission by telecommunication or for delivery, a message which he knows to be false or fabricated, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a one not exceeding twenty thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding three years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. The burden of proving that he did not know any message to be false or fabricated shall lie on the person exhausted under this section. |