Banking Regulation Act, 1949
36AD. Punishments for certain activities in
relation to banking companies
(1) No person shall:
(a) obstruct any
person from lawfully entering or leaving any office or place of business of a
banking company or from carrying on any business there, or
(b) hold, within the
office or place of business of any banking company, any demonstration which is
violent or which prevents or is calculated to prevent, the transaction of
normal business by the banking company, or
(c) act in any manner
calculated to undermine the confidence of the depositors in the banking
company.
(2) Whoever contravenes any provisions of
sub-section (1) without any reasonable excuse shall be punishable with imprisonment
for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one
thousand rupees, or with both.
(3) For the purpose of this section
"Banking Company" includes the Reserve Bank, the Development Bank,
the Exim Bank [the Reconstruction Bank], [the National Housing Bank], the
National Bank, the Small Industries Bank], the State Bank of India, a
corresponding new bank, a Regional Rural Bank and a subsidiary bank.]