The Indian Post Office Act

Penalty for misconduct of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles

Penalty for voluntary withdrawal from duty, without permission or notice, of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles

Penalty for making false entry in register kept by person employed to carry or deliver any postal articles

Penalty for theft, dishonest misappropriation, secretion, destruction, or throwing away of postal articles

Penalty for opening, detaining or delaying postal articles

Penalty for fraud in connection with official marks and for receipt of excess postage

Penalty for fraudulently preparing, altering secreting or destroying Post Office documents

Penalty for fraudulently sending unpaid postal articles

[Repealed.]


Offences by officers of the Post Office


Whoever, being an officer of the
Post Office, sends by post, or puts into any mail bag, any postal article upon which postage has not been
paid or charged in the manner prescribed by this Act, intending thereby to defraud the Government of the
postage on such postal article, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two
years, and shall also be punishable with fine.

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# 56 Penalty for fraudulently sending unpaid postal articles