The Indian Post Office Act

Redelivery to sender of postal article in course of transmission by post

Transmission by post of anything injurious prohibited

Transmission by post of tickets, proposals, etc., relating to unauthorised lotteries prohibited

Transmission by post of anything indecent, etc., prohibited

Power to make rules as to transmission by post of postal articles

Power to postpone dispatch or delivery of certain postal articles

Power to deal with postal articles posted in contravention of Act

Power to deal with postal articles containing goods contraband or liable to duty

Power to deliver such articles to Customs authority

Power to intercept notified goods during transmission by post

Power to intercept postal articles for public good

Power to deal with postal articles from abroad bearing fictitious or previously used stamps

Prohibition of transmission by post of certain newspapers

Power to detain newspapers and other articles being transmitted by post

Procedure for disposal by High Court of applications for release of newspapers and articles so detained

Jurisdiction barred


CONDITIONS OF TRANSMISSION OF POSTAL ARTICLES


No person shall send by post--

(a) any indecent or obscene printing, painting, photograph, lithograph, engraving, book or card,
or any other indecent or obscene article, or

(b) any postal article having thereon, or on the cover thereof, any words, marks or designs of an
indecent, obscene, seditious, scurrilous, threatening or grossly offensive character.

LAWGIST

# 20 Transmission by post of anything indecent, etc., prohibited