Penalty for subversive acts

(1) No person shall do an act with intent to injuriously affect, whether by impairing the efficiency or impeding the working of anything or in any other manner whatsover, or to cause damage to,— (a) any building, vehicle, machinery, apparatus or other property used or intended to be used, for the purpose of Government or any local authority; (b) any road, canal, canal embankments, protective bounds, sluice-gates, lockgates, bridge, culvert, air-field, air-strip or any installation thereon, or any telegraph line or post (as defined in the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885) or any wireless installation; (c) any aircraft; (d) any building or other property used in connection with the production, distribution or supply of any essential commodity, any sewage works, mine or factory; (e) any prohibited place as defined in sub-section (8) of section 2 of the Indian Official Secrets Act, 1923. (2) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall apply in relation to any omission on the part of a person to do anything which he is under a duty imposed on him by law or an order of any competent authority to do, as they apply to the doing of any act by a person. (3) If any person contravenes any of the provisions of this section, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine or with both.