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Section 13: Penalty for unlawfully entering or remaining upon the metro railway or walking on the metro railway line.

The Calcutta Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Temporary Provisions Act, 1985Central Act · Act 10 of 1985

[(1) If any person enters upon or into any part of a metro railway without lawful authority, he shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred rupees.

(1A) If the person refuses to pay the penalty mentioned in sub-section (1), the violator shall be produced before the competent court, wherein he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend up to three months, or with fine which may extend up to five thousand rupees, or with both:

Provided that in the absence of special and adequate reasons to the contrary to be mentioned in the judgment of the court, such punishment shall not be less than imprisonment for one month or a fine of two thousand rupees.

(1B) If any person having lawfully or unlawfully entered upon or into any part of metro railway misuses such property and refuses to leave, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both:

Provided that in the absence of special and adequate reasons to the contrary to be mentioned in the judgment of the court, such punishment shall not be less than a fine of five hundred rupees.

(1C) Any person referred to in sub-sections (1A) and (1B) may be removed from the metro railway by any metro railway servant or by any other person whom such metro railway servant may call to his aid.]

(2) If any person walks on the metro railway line without any lawful authority, he 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.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Calcutta Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Temporary Provisions Act, 1985
Section13
Marginal notePenalty for unlawfully entering or remaining upon the metro railway or walking on the metro railway line.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Act 8 of 2026. Subs. by Act 8 of 2026, s. 2 and Sch., for sub-section (1) (w.e.f. 19.06.2026).

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