Section 12
Power to require the production of messages
ActIn forceProvision 16 of 38
Section 12
(2)
If any person, on being required to produce such original or transcript or paper, refuses or neglects to do so or mutilates or destroys the same, he shall be guilty of an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term not less than one year but not exceeding seven years.
(3)
In this section the expression “message” and
“telecommunication” shall have the same meaning as in the law relating to telecommunications for the time being in force.