(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.
27. Telegraph officer fraudulently sending messages without payment. If any telegraph officer
transmits by telegraph any message on which the charge prescribed by the 1[Federal Government], or
by a person licensed under this Act, as the case may be, has not been paid, intending thereby to
defraud the 1[Federal Government] or that person, he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term
which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
28. Misconduct. 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, is guilty of any act of
drunken ness, carelessness or other misconduct whereby the correct transmission or the delivery of
any message is impeded or delay ed, or if any telegraph officer loiters or delays in the transmission or
delivery of any message, he shall be punished with imprison ment for a term which may extend to
three months, or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both.
2[29.
Sending fabricated or obscene messages. If any person transmits or causes to be
transmitted by telegraph a message which he knows or has reason to believe to be false or fabricated,
or a message which is indecent or obscene, he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which
may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.]
3[29A. Penalty. If any person, without due authority, __
(a) makes or issues any document of a nature reasonably calculated to cause it to be believed
that the document has been issued by, or under the authority of, the 4[Director General,
Pakistan Telegraph and Telephone Department], or
(b) makes on any document any mark in imitation of, or similar to, or purporting to be, any
stamp or mark of any telegraph office under the 4[Director General, Pakistan Telegraph
and Telephone Department], or a mark of a nature reasonably calculated to cause it to be
believed that the document so marked has been issued by, or under the authority of, the
4[Director General, Pakistan Telegraph and Telephone Depart ment],
he shall be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.]
1 Subs. by the Telegraph (Amdt.) Act, 1975 (67 of 1975), s. 2, for “Central Government” which was previously subs. by A.O.,1937, for “Govt.”.
2 Subs. by the Telegraph (Amdt.) Act, 1950 (77 of 1950), s. 2, for the original section 29.
3 Section 29A ins. by the Indian Telegraph (Amdt.) Act, 1914 (7 of 1914), s. 9.
4 Subs. by the Posts and Telegraphs (Amdt.) Act, 1962 (5 of 1962), s. 2, for “Director General of [posts and Telegraphs]” (with effect from the 1st July, 1962). The words in crotchets were
subs. by the Indian Post Office and Telegraph (Amdt.) Act, 1914 (14 of 1914), s. 2, for “Telegraphs”.
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