36AD. Punishments for certain activities in relation to banking companies.—(1) No person
shall—
(a) obstruct any person from lawfully entering or leaving any office or place of business of a
banking company or from carrying on any business there, or
(b) hold, within the office or place of business of any banking company, any demonstration
which is violent or which prevents, or is calculated to prevent, the transaction of normal business by
the banking company, or
(c) act in any manner calculated to undermine the confidence of the depositors in the banking
company.
(2) Whoever contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) without any reasonable excuse shall be
punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may
extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
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[(3) For the purposes of this section “banking company” includes the Reserve Bank, 3*** the Exim
Bank 4
[the Reconstruction Bank], 5
[the National Housing Bank], the National Bank,
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[the Small
Industries Bank 7
[, the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development or the other
development financial institution,]] the State Bank of India, a corresponding new bank, a regional rural
bank and a subsidiary bank].