The Indian Post Office Act

Penalty for contravention of section 4

Penalty for contravention of section 5

Penalty for breach of rules under section 16

Penalty for contravention of section 19, 19A or 20

Penalty for defiling or injuring post office letter-boxes

Penalty for affixing without authority thing to, or painting, tarring or disfiguring, post office or post office letter-box

Penalty for making false declaration

Penalty for master of ship failing to comply with the provisions of section 40 or 41

Penalty for detention of letters on board vessel arriving in port

Penalty for detaining mails or opening mail bag

Penalty for retaining postal articles wrongly delivered or mail bags

Penalty for unlawfully diverting letters


Other offences


Whoever fraudulently
retains, or willfully secretes or makes away with, or keeps or detains, or when required by an officer of
the Post Office, neglects or refuses to deliver up, any postal article in course of transmission by post
which ought to have been delivered to any other person, or a mail bag containing a 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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# 68 Penalty for retaining postal articles wrongly delivered or mail bags