Section 23:
Intrusion into signal-room, trespass in telegraph office or obstruction.
If any person--
(a) without permission of competent authority, enters the signal-room of a telegraph office of the
Government, or of a person licensed under this Act, or
(b) enters a fenced enclosure round such a telegraph office in contravention of any rule or notice
not to do so, or
(c) refuses to quit such room or enclosure on being requested to do so by any officer or servant
employed therein, or
(d) wilfully obstructs or impedes any such officer or servant in the performance of his
duty,
he shall be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.