Penalty for travelling without pass or ticket and for dereliction of duty on the part of conductor and refusal to ply contract carriage, etc
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Summary
Travelers must carry a proper pass or ticket and must present it or hand it over when asked; failing to do so can attract a fine up to Rs 500. A conductor or a driver acting as conductor who wilfully or negligently refuses to accept fare, supply or check tickets, or supplies invalid or lesser-value tickets may be fined up to Rs 500. A permit-holder or driver who refuses to ply a contract carriage or carry passengers can be fined: up to Rs 50 for two- or three-wheeled vehicles, and up to Rs 200 for other vehicles.
Example
Ravi boards a stage carriage without a ticket. When the conductor asks for his pass, Ravi refuses to show it; the conductor had earlier refused to give Ravi a ticket after he paid. Under this section Ravi may be fined up to Rs 500 for not producing a ticket, and the conductor may be fined up to Rs 500 for failing in his ticket duties.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) Whoever travels in a stage carriage without having a proper pass or ticket with him or being in or having alighted from a stage carriage fails or refuses to present for examination or to deliver up his pass or ticket immediately on a requisition being made therefor, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
Explanation
In this section, “pass” and “ticket” have the meanings respectively assigned to them in section 124.
(2) If the conductor of a stage carriage, or the driver of a stage carriage performing the functions of a conductor in such stage carriage, whose duty is—
- (a) to supply a ticket to a person travelling in a stage carriage on payment of fare by such person, either wilfully or negligently—
(i) fails or refuses to accept the fare when tendered, or
(ii) fails or refuses to supply a ticket, or
(iii) supplies an invalid ticket, or
(iv) supplies a ticket of a lesser value, or
(b) to check any pass or ticket, either wilfully or negligently fails or refuses to do so, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
(3) If the holder of a permit or the driver of a contract carriage refuses, in contravention of the provisions of this Act or rules made thereunder, to ply the contract carriage or to carry the passengers, he shall—
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(a) in the case of two-wheeled or three-wheeled motor vehicles, be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees; and
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(b) in any other case, be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.
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