LawgistThe Indian Post Office Act
50Penalty for voluntary withdrawal from duty, without permission or notice, 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, voluntarily withdraws from the duties of his office without permission or without having given one month's previous notice in writing, shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, or with both.
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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- 57 [Repealed.]
