Transmission of unpaid message prohibited
56. Every telecommunication officer, or other person having official duties connected with any office used as a telecommunication office, who with the 'intention of defrauding the operator transmits or causes to be transmitted by telecommunication or delivers or causes to be delivered any message on which the charge prescribed by the Authority has not been paid, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding three years, or to both such fine and such imprisonment. |