Explanation.__ In this section, “theft” has the same meaning as in the Pakistan Penal Code Act
(XLV of 1860).
25C. Penalty for tampering, etc., of telegraph line. Any person, including a telegraph officer,
who tam pers with or uses a telegraph line or telegraph in order to cause wrongful loss to the
Government or to any subscriber or to cause wrongful gain to any subscriber or any other person
shall, without prejudice to any action which the telegraph authority is competent to take under this
Act, be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which is not less than one year and not
more than seven years, with or without fine.
25D. Penalty for causing annoyance, etc. Any person, including a telegraph officer, who uses
any telephone, public or private, for causing annoyance or inti midation to any person, whether a
subscriber or not, or for obnoxious calls shall, without prejudice to any other action which the
telegraph authority is competent to take under this Act, be punishable with imprisonment for a term
which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
25E. Application of Chapter XX, Act V of 1898. The provisions of Chapter XX of the Code of
Cri minal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898) shall apply to the trial of offences punish able under this
Act.
25F. Burden of proof in certain cases. Any person who is found to be in possession of, or
having under his control, without lawful authority, telegraph line, copper wire, cable or cable
accessory of a kind notified by the telegraph authority to be generally used by the Pakistan Tele graph
and Telephone Department shall, unless he proves that he has such authority, be deemed to have
committed the offence punishable under section 25B.]
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 tele graph officer but having official duties connected with any office which is
used as a telegraph office,__
(a) wilfully secretes, makes away with or alters any message which he has received for
transmission or delivery, or
(b) wilfully and otherwise than in obedience to an order of the 1[Federal Government] or of a
2[Provincial Government], or of an officer specially authorized 3[by the 4[Federal] or a
Provincial 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
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” G. G. in C”.
2 Subs. by A.O., 1937, for “L. G,”.
3 Subs. ibid., for “by the G.G. in C.” .
4 Subs. by F. A.O., 1975. Art. 2 and Table, for “Central”.
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