LawgistThe Railways Act
166Defacing public notices
If any person without lawful authority--
(a) pulls down or wilfully damages any board or document set up or posted by the order of a railway administration on a 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 for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
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PENALTIES AND OFFENCES
- 137 Fraudulently travelling or attempting to travel without proper pass or ticket
- 138 Levy of excess charge and fare for travelling without proper pass or ticket or beyond authorised distance
- 139 Power to remove persons
- 140 Security for good behaviour in certain cases
- 141 Needlessly interfering with means of communication in a train
- 142 Penalty for transfer of tickets
- 143 Penalty for unauthorised carrying on of business of procuring and supplying of railway tickets
- 144 Prohibition on hawking, etc., and begging
- 145 Drunkenness or nuisance
- 146 Obstructing railway servant in his duties
- 147 Trespass and refusal to desist from trespass
- 148 Penalty for making a false statement in an application for compensation
- 149 Making a false claim for compensation
- 150 Maliciously wrecking or attempting to wreck a train
- 151 Damage to or destruction of certain railway properties
- 152 Maliciously hurting or attempting to hurt persons travelling by railway
- 153 Endangering safety of persons travelling by railway by wilful act or omission
- 154 Endangering safety of persons travelling by railway by rash or negligent act or omission
- 155 Entering into a compartment reserved or resisting entry into a compartment not reserved
- 156 Travelling on roof, step or engine of a train
- 157 Altering or defacing pass or ticket
- 158 Penalty for contravention of any of the provisions of Chapter XIV
- 159 Disobedience of drivers or conductors of vehicles to directions of railway servant, etc
- 160 Opening or breaking a level crossing gate
- 161 Negligently crossing unmanned level crossing
- 162 Entering carriage or other place reserved for females
- 163 Giving false account of goods
- 164 Unlawfully bringing dangerous goods on a railway
- 165 Unlawfully bringing offensive goods on a railway
- 166 Defacing public notices
- 167 Smoking
- 168 Provision with respect to commission of offence by the children of acts endangering safety of person travelling on railway
- 169 Levy of penalty on non-Government railway
- 170 Recovery of penalty
- 171 Section 169 or 170 not to preclude Central Government from taking any other action
- 172 Penalty for intoxication
- 173 Abandoning train, etc., without authority
- 174 Obstructing running of train, etc
- 175 Endangering the safety of persons
- 176 Obstructing level crossing
- 177 False returns
- 178 Making a false report by a railway servant
- 179 Arrest for offences under certain sections
- 180 Arrest of persons likely to abscond, etc
- 180A Inquiry by officer authorised to ascertain commission of offence
- 180B Powers of officer authorised to inquire
- 180C Disposal of persons arrested
- 180D Inquiry how to be made against arrested person
- 180E Search, seizure and arrest how to be made
- 180F Cognizance by Court on a complaint made by officer authorised
- 180G Punishment for certain offences in relation to inquiry
- 181 Magistrate having jurisdiction under the Act
- 182 Place of trial
