Section 5: Fraud related offences, etc. as Amended by Section 3 of the TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL OFFENCES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2016

(1) A person who knowingly-
(a) credits the account of a subscriber with an amount that was not paid into the account; or
(b) clones, programmes or activates, for use in connection with the mobile telephone of some other person, the programme data of a mobile telephone that has been allocated by an operator; or
(c) communicates to an unauthorised person, the programme data or electronic serial number of a mobile set that has been allocated to another person; or
(d) sells, re-sells or offers for sale or re-sale or otherwise deals in any cable, cabling material or any other telecommunications equipment or service; or
(e) undercharges for any telecommunications service, adjusts or tampers with a subscriber's bill or overbills a subscriber; or
(f) sells or otherwise deals in a used telephone call card; or
(g) uses a telephone number allocated to a subscriber or knowingly allows a telephone number allocated to him to be used in a letter or document containing a false pretence; or
(h) engages in computer fraud or does anything relating to fake payments, whether or not the payment is credited to the account of an operator or the account of a subscriber; or
(i) without lawful authority, uses the facilities of an operator for an international telephone call; or
(j) without lawful authority, allocates a land line, a fixed or a mobile telephone set, is guilty of an offence.
(2) A person who knowingly-
(a) forges any bank stamp, bank schedule or payment slip relating to the account of a subscriber or any document relating to payment to the account of an operator; or
(b) steals any cabling material or any other telecommunications or radio communications equipment or material, is guilty of an offence.
[1997 No. 19]