Indian Telegraph Act, 1885
26. Telegraph officer or other official making away with
or altering, or unlawfully intercepting or disclosing messages, or divulging
purport of signals
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,-
(a) willfully secretes, makes away with or alters any message
which he has received for transmission or delivery, or
(b) willfully, and otherwise than in obedience to an order of
the Central Government or of a State Government, or of an officer specially
authorized 20[by the Central or a State Government] to make the
order, omits to transmit or intercepts or detains, any message or any part
thereof, or otherwise than in pursuance of his official duty or in obedience to
the direction of a competent court, discloses the contents or any part of the
contents of any message, to any person not entitled to receive the same, or
(c) divulges the purport of any telegraphic signal to any person
not entitled to become acquainted with the same,
he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to three years or with fine, or with both.