Penal Code
77
Receipt of document and publication detrimental to parliamentary
democracy
124j. (1) Any person or any office bearer of any association
or any responsible member or agent of any organization who
receives any document or publication detrimental to parliamentary
democracy shall deliver the same without delay to a police
officer; and any person, office bearer, member or agent who fails
to do so, or who, unless authorized so to do by a police officer
not below the rank of Superintendent of Police, communicates
to any other person, or publishes or causes to be published the
contents of any such document or publication, shall be punished
with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years.
(2) The document and publication referred to in subsection (1)
shall be presumed to be a document or publication detrimental to
parliamentary democracy until the contrary is proved; and where
in any prosecution under this section it is proved that a person
was carrying or had in his possession or under his control a
document or publication detrimental to parliamentary democracy
he shall be deemed to have known the contents and the nature
of the contents of such document or publication:
Provided that no person shall be convicted of an offence under
this section if he proves to the satisfaction of the court—
(a)
that he was not aware of the contents and the nature of
the contents of the document or publication detrimental
to parliamentary democracy which he was carrying or
had in his possession or under his control; and
(b)
that he was carrying or had the document or publication
detrimental to parliamentary democracy in his possession
or under his control in such circumstances that at no
time did he have reasonable cause to believe or suspect
that the document or publication was a document or
publication detrimental to parliamentary democracy.
Sabotage
124k. Whoever, by any means, directly or indirectly, commits
sabotage shall be punished with imprisonment for life.
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