LawgistThe Indian Post Office Act
49Penalty for misconduct of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles
Whoever, being employed to carry or deliver any mail bag or any postal article in course of transmission by post,--
(a) is in a state of intoxication while so employed, or
(b) is guilty of carelessness or other misconduct, whereby the safety of any such mail bag or postal article as aforesaid is endangered, or
(c) loiters or makes delay in the conveyance or delivery of any such mail bag or postal article as aforesaid, or
(d) does not use due care and diligence safely to convey or deliver any such mail bag or postal article as aforesaid,
shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
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Offences by officers of the Post Office
- 49 Penalty for misconduct of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles
- 50 Penalty for voluntary withdrawal from duty, without permission or notice, of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles
- 51 Penalty for making false entry in register kept by person employed to carry or deliver any postal articles
- 52 Penalty for theft, dishonest misappropriation, secretion, destruction, or throwing away of postal articles
- 53 Penalty for opening, detaining or delaying postal articles
- 54 Penalty for fraud in connection with official marks and for receipt of excess postage
- 55 Penalty for fraudulently preparing, altering secreting or destroying Post Office documents
- 56 Penalty for fraudulently sending unpaid postal articles
- 57 [Repealed.]
