59. Drunkenness or nuisance on metro railway.—(1) If any person, in any carriage or upon any
part of the metro railway,—
(a) is in a state of intoxication; or
(b) commits any nuisance or vandalism or act of indecency, or uses abusive or obscene
language; or
(c) wilfully or without excuse interferes in any way with the comfort of any passenger,
he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees and shall also be liable to
forfeiture of the fare which he may have paid or any pass or ticket which he may have obtained or
purchased, or be removed from such carriage or part by any metro railway official authorised by the
metro railway administration in this behalf.
(2) If any metro railway official is in a state of intoxication while on duty, he shall be 1
[liable to
penalty which may extend to ten thousand rupees] or, where the improper performance of the duty would
be likely to endanger the safety of any passenger travelling or being upon the metro railway, with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine which may extend to 2
[ten thousand
rupees], or with both.
60. Penalty for taking or causing to take offensive material upon metro railway.—(1) If, in
contravention of sub-section (1) of section 30, a person takes or causes to be taken any offensive material
upon the metro railway, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
(2) In addition to the penalties specified in sub-section (1), a person takes or causes to be taken any
offensive material upon the metro railway shall be responsible also for any loss, injury or damage which
may be caused by reason of such material having been so brought upon the metro railway.
61. Penalty for taking or causing to take dangerous material upon metro railway.—(1) If, in
contravention of sub-section (1) of section 30, a person takes or causes to be taken any dangerous material
upon the metro railway, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to four
years and with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.
(2) In addition to the penalties specified in sub-section (1), a person takes or causes to be taken any
dangerous material upon the metro railway shall be responsible also for any loss, injury or damage which
may be caused by reason of such material having been so brought upon the metro railway.
62. Prohibition of demonstrations upon metro railway.—(1) No demonstration of any kind
whatsoever shall be held on any part of the metro railway or other premises thereof and it shall be open to
the metro railway administration to exclude from such premises any person attending such
demonstrations whether or not he is in possession of a pass or ticket entitling him to be in the said
premises.
(2) No person shall paste or put up any poster or write or draw anything or matter in any compartment
or carriage of the metro railway, or any premises thereof, without any lawful authority and any person
1. Subs. by Act 18 of 2023, s. 2 and the Schedule, for “punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees”
(w.e.f. 6-10-2023).
2. Subs. by s. 2 and the Schedule, ibid., for “five hundred rupees” (w.e.f. 6-10-2023).
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found engaged in doing any such act may be removed from the compartment, carriage or premises by any
metro railway official authorised by the metro railway administration in this behalf.
(3) Whoever contravenes any of the provisions of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), or on being
asked by any metro railway official to leave any compartment, carriage or premises refuses to do so, 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.
63. Penalty for travelling on roof, etc., of a train.—If any passenger travels on the roof of a train or
persists in travelling in any part of a train not intended for the use of passengers or projects any part of his
body out of a train 1
[he shall be liable to penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees], and shall
also be liable to be removed from the train by any metro railway official authorised by the metro railway
administration in this behalf.
64. Penalty for unlawfully entering or remaining upon metro railway or walking on metro
track.—(1) If a person enters into or upon the metro railway without any lawful authority or having
entered with lawful authority remains there unlawfully and refuses to leave on being requested to do so by
any metro railway official, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees, or with both.
(2) If any person walks on the metro track without any lawful authority, he shall be punishable with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred
rupees, or with both.
65. Endangering the safety of passengers by metro railway official.—If any metro railway
official, when on duty endangers the safety of any passenger,-
(a) by any rash or negligent act or omission; or
(b) by disobeying any rule, regulation or order which such official was bound by the terms of his
employment to obey, and of which he had notice,
he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2
[two years, or with fine which
may extend to thirty thousand rupees, or with both].
66. Abandoning train, etc., without authority.—If any metro railway official, when on duty, is
entrusted with any responsibility connected with the running of a train, or any other rolling stock from
one station or place to another station or place, and he abandons his duty before reaching such station or
place, without authority or without properly handing over such train or rolling stock to another authorised
metro railway official, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to four
years, or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.
67. Obstructing running of train, etc.—If any person obstructs or causes to be obstructed or
attempts to obstruct any train or rolling stock upon the metro railway by squatting, picketing or keeping
without authority any rolling stock on the metro railway or tampering with any signalling installations or
by interfering with the working mechanism thereof, or otherwise, he shall be liable to be removed by any
metro railway official, authorised by the metro railway administration in this behalf and shall also be
punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to four years, or with fine which may extend
to five thousand rupees, or with both.
68. Obstructing metro railway official in his duties.—If any person wilfully obstructs or prevents
any metro railway official in the discharge of his duties, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a
term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
69. Travelling without proper pass or ticket or beyond authorised distance.—(1) If any
passenger-
(a) travels in a train without having a proper pass or ticket with him; or
1. Subs. by Act 18 of 2023, s. 2 and the Schedule, for certain words (w.e.f. 6-10-2023).
2. Subs. by s. 2 and the Schedule, ibid., for “five years, or with fine which may extend to six thousand rupees, or with both”
(w.e.f. 6-10-2023).
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(b) being in or having alighted from a train, fails or refuses to present for examination or to
deliver up his pass or ticket immediately on requisition being made therefor under section 24, or
travels in a train in contravention of the provisions of section 25, he shall be liable to pay, on
demand of any metro railway official appointed by the metro railway administration in this behalf,
the excess charge mentioned in sub-section (3) in addition to the ordinary single fare for the
distance which he has travelled or, where there is any doubt as to the station from which he started,
the ordinary single fare from the station from which the train originally started.
(2) If any passenger travels or attempts to travel in a carriage or by a train or travels in or on a
carriage beyond the place authorised by his pass or ticket, he shall be liable to pay, on demand of any
person appointed by the metro railway administration in this behalf, the excess charge mentioned in
sub-section (3) in addition to any difference between any fare paid by him and the fare payable in respect
of the journey he has made.
(3) The excess charge referred to in sub-sections (1) and (2) shall be fifty rupees.
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[(4) If any passenger liable to pay the excess charge and fare mentioned in sub-section (1), or the
excess charge and any difference of fare mentioned in sub-section (2), fails or refuses to pay the same on
a demand being made therefor, any metro railway official authorised by the metro railway administration
in this behalf may apply to any Metropolitan Magistrate or, as the case may be, Judicial Magistrate of the
first class, for the recovery of the sum payable as if it were a fine.]
(5) Any sum recovered under sub-section (4) shall, as and when it is recovered, be paid to the
Consolidated Fund of India.
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[70. Needlessly interfering with means of communication in a train.— If any passenger or any
other person without reasonable and sufficient cause makes use of, or interferes with, any means provided
by the metro railway administration in a metro railway for communication between passengers and metro
railway official in charge of the metro railway or misuses alarm bell or emergency stop push or
emergency trip system or emergency call point of the metro railway, he shall be liable to penalty which
may extend to ten thousand rupees.]
71. Altering or defacing or counterfeiting pass or ticket.—If any person wilfully breaks the
security code of any pass or ticket, or defaces or alters or counterfeits or duplicates it or acts in any way to
cause revenue loss to metro railway, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to six months.
72. Defacing 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.
73. Any sale of articles on metro railway.—If any person sells or exposes for sale, any article
whatsoever in any metro railway carriage or upon any part of the metro premises not authorised by metro
railway administration for such purpose, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five
hundred rupees, and in default of payment of fine, he shall be punishable with imprisonment which may
extend to six months:
Provided that, in the absence of special and adequate reasons to the contrary to be mentioned in the
judgment of the court, such fine shall not be less than one hundred rupees.
74. Maliciously wrecking a train or causing sabotage.—(1) If any person—
(a) loosens or displaces any rail or any other matter or thing belonging to the metro railway; or
1. Subs. by Act 18 of 2023, s. 2 and the Schedule, for sub-section (4) (w.e.f. 6-10-2023).
2. Subs. by s. 2 and the Schedule, ibid., for section 70 (w.e.f. 6-10-2023).
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(b) turns, moves, unlocks or diverts any point or other machinery belonging to the metro railway;
or
(c) does or causes to be done any act of sabotage in relation to the metro railway with intent or
with knowledge that it is likely to endanger safety of any person upon the metro railway,
he shall be punishable with imprisonment for life, or with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may
extend to ten years:
Provided that, in the absence of special and adequate reasons to the contrary to be mentioned in the
judgment of the court, where a person is punished with rigorous imprisonment, such imprisonment shall
not be less than—
(i) three years in the case of a first conviction; and
(ii) seven years in the case of conviction for the second or subsequent offence.
(2) If a person unlawfully does any act of sabotage or any other act referred to in sub-section (1) with
intent to cause the death of any person, or with knowledge that such act is so imminently dangerous that it
must in all probability cause the death of any person or such bodily injury to any person as is likely to
cause the death of any person, he shall be punishable with death or imprisonment for life.
75. Penalty for unauthorised sale of tickets.—If any person not being a metro railway official, or an
agent authorised in this behalf under sub-section (2) of section 23 sells or attempts to sell any ticket in
order to enable any other person to travel therewith, he shall be punishable for a term which may extend
to three months, or fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both, and shall also forfeit the
ticket which he sells or attempts to sell.
76. Maliciously hurting or attempting to hurt persons travelling by metro railway.—If any
person unlawfully throws or causes to fall or strike at, against, into or upon any rolling stock forming part
of a train, any wood, stone or other matter or thing with intent, or with knowledge that it is likely to
endanger the safety of any person being in or upon such rolling stock or in or upon any other rolling stock
forming part of the same train, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment for
a term which may extend to ten years.
77. Endangering safety of persons travelling by metro railway by rash or negligent act or
omission.—If any person in a rash or negligent manner does any act, or omits to do what he is legally
bound to do, and the act or omission is likely to endanger the safety of any person travelling or being
upon the metro railway, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one
year, or with fine, or with both.
78. Damage to or destruction of certain metro railway properties.—(1) Whoever, with intent to
cause or knowing that he is likely to cause damage to or destruction of any of the properties of the metro
railway referred to in sub-section (2), causes by fire, explosive substance or otherwise causes damage to
such property, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years.
(2) The properties of the metro railway referred to in sub-section (1) are the metro railway track,
tunnels, sub-way, box-structures, station buildings and installations, carriage and wagons, rolling stock,
signalling, telecommunication, air-conditioning and ventilation equipments, electrical sub-station,
drainage pump, escalators, lifts, lighting installations, ticket vending machine, ticket barriers, electric
traction and block equipments, and such other properties as the Central Government may, by notification,
specify.
79. Endangering the safety of persons travelling by metro railway by wilful act or omission.—If
any person by unlawful act or by any wilful omission or neglect or by tampering with safety devices,
endangers or causes to be endangered the safety of any person travelling on or being upon any metro
railway, or obstructs or causes to be obstructed or attempts to obstruct any rolling stock upon any metro
railway, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years:
Provided that, in the absence of special and adequate reasons to the contrary to be mentioned in the
judgment of the court, such imprisonment shall not be less than-
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(i) six months in the case of first conviction; and
(ii) two years in the case of conviction for the second or subsequent offence.
80. [Penalty for making a false claim for compensation].—Omitted by the Jan Vishwas
(Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023 (18 of 2023), s. 2 and the Schedule (w.e.f. 6-10-2023).
81. Offences by companies.—(1) Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a
company, every person who, at the time the offence was committed, was in charge of, and was
responsible to, the company, for the conduct of the business of the company, as well as the company,
shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished
accordingly:
Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall render any such person liable to any
punishment, if he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge or that he had exercised
all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where any offence under this Act has been
committed by a company and it is proved that the offence has been committed with the consent or
connivance of, or is attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other
officer of the company, such director, manager, secretary or other officer shall be deemed to be guilty of
that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
Explanation.—For the purpose of this section,—
(a) “company” means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of
individuals; and
(b) “director”, in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.
82. Power of arrest without warrant.—(1) If a person commits any offence mentioned in sections
59, 61, 1
[sections 65 to 68, 71 to 79], he may be arrested without warrant or other written authority by any
metro railway official or by a police officer not below the rank of a head constable or by any other person
whom such metro railway official or police officer may call to his aid:
Provided that where a person has been arrested, by any person other than the police officer, he shall
be made over to a police officer, or, in the absence of a police officer, take such person or cause him to be
taken in custody to the nearest police station.
(2) A person so arrested under sub-section (1) shall be produced before the nearest Magistrate, having
authority to try him or commit him for trial, as early as possible but within a period not exceeding
twenty-four hours of such arrest exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to
the court of the Magistrate.
83. Arrest of person likely to abscond, etc.—(1) If any person commits any offence under this Act,
other than an offence mentioned in section 82 or fails or refuses to pay any excess charge or other sum
demanded under section 69 and there is reason to believe that he may abscond, or his name and address
are unknown and he refuses on demand to give his name and address, or there is reason to believe that
name and address given by him is incorrect, any metro railway official or police officer not below the
rank of head constable, or any other person whom such metro railway official may call to his aid, may,
without warrant or written authority, arrest him.
(2) A person so arrested shall be produced before the nearest Magistrate, having authority to try him
or commit him for trial, as early as possible but within a period not exceeding twenty-four hours,
exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of the Magistrate.
84. Magistrate having jurisdiction under the Act.—Notwithstanding anything contained in the
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), no court inferior to that of a Metropolitan Magistrate shall
try an offence under this Act.
1. Subs. by Act 18 of 2023, s. 2 and the Schedule, for the words and figures “sections 65 to 79” (w.e.f. 6-10-2023).
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85. Place of trial.—(1) Any person committing an offence under this Act, or any rule or regulation
made thereunder, shall be triable for such offence in any place in which he may be, or which the 1
[State
Government] may notify in this behalf, as well as any other place in which he is liable to be tried under
any law for the time being in force.
(2) Every notification under sub-section (1) shall be published by the 2
[State Government] and a copy
thereof shall be exhibited for the information of the public in some conspicuous place at such metro
railway stations as that Government may direct.