If any telegraph officer, or any person not being a telegraph officer but having official duties connected with any office which is used as a telegraph office, is guilty of any act of drunkenness, carelessness or other misconduct whereby the correct transmission or the delivery of any message is impeded or delayed, or if any telegraph officer loiters or delays in the transmission or delivery of any message, he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both.
29. [Sending fabricated message.] Rep. by the Indian Telegraph (Amendment) Act, 1971 (33 of 1971), s. 4.
1. Ins . b y Act 7 o f 1914 , s . 8 .
2. S u b s . b y t h e A . O . 1 9 3 7 , fo r “ b y t h e G . O . i n C . ”
3. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for “Govt.” 14 1 [29A. Penalty.—If any person, without due authority,—
(a) makes or issues any document of a nature reasonably calculated to cause it to be believed that the document has been issued by, or under the authority of, the Director - General of 2 [Posts and Telegraphs], or
(b) makes on any document any mark in imitation of, or similar to, or purporting to be, any stamp or mark of any telegraph office under the Director -General of 1 [Posts and Telegraphs], or a mark of a nature reasonably calculated to cause it to be believed that the document so marked has been issued by, or under the authority of, the Director -General of 1 [Posts and Telegraphs], he shall be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.]