Indian Telegraph Act, 1885
20. Establishing, maintaining or working
unauthorized telegraph
(1) If any person establishes, maintains or works a telegraph
within 1[India] in contravention of the provisions of section 4 or
otherwise than as permitted by rules made under that section, he shall be
punished, if the telegraph is a wireless telegraph, with imprisonment which may
extend to three years, or with fine, or with both, and, in any other case, with
a fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), offences under this section in respect of a
wireless telegraph shall, for the purposes of the said Code, be bailable and
non-cognizable.
(3) When any person is convicted of an offence punishable under
this section, the court before which he is convicted may direct that the
telegraph in respect of which the offence has been committed, or any part of
such telegraph, be forfeited to government.]