Other offences and penalties therefor.- (1) A person shall be guilty of an electoral offence if at any election he-

(a) fraudulently defaces, or fraudulently destroys any nomination paper; or (b) fraudulently defaces, or destroys or removes any list, notice or other documents affixed by or under the authority of an Election Officer; or (c) fraudulently defaces, or fraudulently destroys any ballot paper or the official mark on the ballot paper or any declaration of identity; or (d) without due authority supplies any ballot paper to any person; or (e) fraudulently puts into any ballot box anything other than the ballot paper which he is authorized by law to put in; or (f) without due authority destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or ballot papers then in use for the purposes of the election; or (g) fraudulently or without due authority, as the case may be, attempts to do any of the foregoing acts or wilfully aids or abets the doing of any such acts. (2) Any person guilty of any electoral offence under this section shall- (a) if he is a returning officer or a presiding officer at a polling station or any other officer or clerk employed on official duty in connection with the election, 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; (b) if he is any other person, 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. (3) For the purposes of this section, a person shall be deemed to be on official duty if his duty is to take part in the conduct of an election or part of an election including the counting of votes or to be responsible after an election for the used ballot papers and other documents in connection with such election, but the expression “official duty” shall not include any duty imposed otherwise than by or under this Act.