Section 29: Unauthorised Opening

A person under a contract for the conveyance of mail bags of postal articles or a person employed by any such person who unlawfully-(a) opens or suffers to be opened a sealed conveyance; or
(b) takes out or suffers to be taken out of a mail bag with which he is entrusted for conveyance of any postal article,
commits an offence under this Act and on conviction is liable to imprisonment for a term of twenty one years.