LawgistThe Metro Railways (Operation and Maintenance) Act
72Defacing public notices
If any person without lawful authority--
(a) in this behalf pulls down or wilfully damages any board or documents set up or posted by the order of the metro railway administration on the metro railway, or any rolling stock, or
(b) obliterates or alters any letters or figures upon any such board or document or upon any rolling stock,
he shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to two months or with fine up to two hundred and fifty rupees, or with both.
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OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
- 59 Drunkenness or nuisance on metro railway
- 60 Penalty for taking or causing to take offensive material upon metro railway
- 61 Penalty for taking or causing to take dangerous material upon metro railway
- 62 Prohibition of demonstrations upon metro railway
- 63 Penalty for travelling on roof, etc., of a train
- 64 Penalty for unlawfully entering or remaining upon metro railway or walking on metro track
- 65 Endangering the safety of passengers by metro railway official
- 66 Abandoning train, etc., without authority
- 67 Obstructing running of train, etc
- 68 Obstructing metro railway official in his duties
- 69 Travelling without proper pass or ticket or beyond authorised distance
- 70 Needlessly interfering with means of communication in a train
- 71 Altering or defacing or counterfeiting pass or ticket
- 72 Defacing public notices
- 73 Any sale of articles on metro railway
- 74 Maliciously wrecking a train causing sabotage
- 75 Penalty for unauthorised sale of tickets
- 76 Maliciously hurting or attempting to hurt person travelling by metro railway
- 77 Endangering safety of persons travelling by metro railway by rash or negligent act or omission
- 78 Damage to or destruction of certain metro railway properties
- 79 Endangering the safely of persons travelling by metro railway by withful act or omission
- 80 Penalty for making a false claim for compensation
- 81 Offences by companies
- 82 Power of arrest without warrant
- 83 Arrest of person likely to abscond, etc
- 84 Magistrate having jurisdiction under the Act
- 85 Place of trial
