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The Indian Post Office Act, 1898
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Chapter XP — enalties And Procedure
Section 57
Punishment of offences committed in a tribal area, Acceding State or other Indian State .-[ Repealed by the Finance Act, 1950 (25 of 1950), section 11 and Schedule IV.]
Other offences
Related Sections
§69
Penalty for unlawfully diverting letters .-Whoever, not being an officer of the Post Office, wilfully and maliciously, with intent to injure any person, either opens or causes to be opened any letter which ought to have been delivered, or does any act whereby the due delivery of a letter to any person is prevented or impeded, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both:
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§49
Penalty for misconduct of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles .-Whoever, being employed to carry or deliver any mail bag or any postal article in course of transmission by post,
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§59
Penalty for contravention of section 5.-(1) Whoever, in contravention of the provisions of section 5, carries, receives, tenders or delivers letters, or collects letters, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees for every such letter
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§67
Penalty for detaining mails or opening mail bag .-Whoever, except under the authority of this Act [or of any other Act for the time being in force] or in obedience to the order in writing of the Central Government or the direction of a competent Court, detains the mails or any postal article in course of transmission by post, or on any pretence opens a mail bag in course of transmission by post, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees:
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§53
Penalty for opening, detaining or delaying postal articles .-Whoever, being an officer of the Post Office, contrary to his duty, opens, or causes or suffers to be opened, any postal article in course of transmission by post, or wilfully detains or delays, or causes or suffers to be detained or delayed, any such postal article, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine or with both:
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§54
Penalty for fraud in connection with official marks and for receipt of excess postage .-Whoever, being an officer of the Post Office,
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