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Railways Act, 1989 Section 134

Title : Railway Servant to Remain on Duty

State : Central

Year : 1989

Nothing in this Chapter or the rules made thereunder shall, where due provision has been made for the relief of a railway servant, authorise him to leave his duty until he has been relieved. View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Railways Act, 1989 Section 137

Title : Fraudulently Travelling or Attempting to Travel Without Proper Pass or Ticket

State : Central

Year : 1989

(1) If any person, with intent to defraud a railway administration,-- (a) enters or remains in any carriage on a railway or travels in a train in contravention of section 55, or (b) uses or attempts to use a single pass or a single ticket which has already been used on a previous journey, or in the case of a return ticket, a half thereof which has already been so used, he shall 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: Provided that in the absence of special and adequate reasons to the contrary to be mentioned in the judgment of the court, such punishment shall not be less than a fine of five hundred rupees. (2) The person referred to in sub-section (1) shall also be liable to..... View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Railways Act, 1989 Section 142

Title : Penalty for Transfer of Tickets

State : Central

Year : 1989

(1) If any person not being a railway servant or an agent authorised in this behalf-- (a) sells or attempts to sell any ticket or any half of a return ticket; or (b) parts or attempts to part with the possession of a return ticket against which reservation of a seat or berth has been made or any half of a return ticket or a season ticket, in order to enable any other person to travel therewith, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both, and shall also forfeit the ticket which he sells or attempts to sell or parts or attempts to part. (2) If any person purchases any ticket referred to in clause (a) of sub-section (1) or obtains the possession of any ticket referred to in..... View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Railways Act, 1989 Section 146

Title : Obstructing Railway Servant in His Duties

State : Central

Year : 1989

If any person wilfully obstructs or prevents any railway servant in the discharge of his duties, he shall 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. View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Railways Act, 1989 Section 166

Title : Defacing Public Notices

State : Central

Year : 1989

If any person without lawful authority-- (a) pulls down or wilfully damages any board or document set up or posted by the order of a railway administration on a railway or any rolling stock; or (b) obliterates or alters any letters or figures upon any such board or document or upon any rolling stock, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both. View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Railways Act, 1989 Section 173

Title : Abandoning Train, Etc., Without Authority

State : Central

Year : 1989

If any railway servant, when on duty, is entrusted with any responsibility connected with the running of a train, or of any other rolling stock from one station or place to another station or place, and he abandons his duty before reaching such station or place without authority or without properly handing over such train or rolling stock to another authorised railway servant, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both. View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Railways Act, 1989 Section 176

Title : Obstructing Level Crossing

State : Central

Year : 1989

If any railway servant unnecessarily-- (a) allows any rolling stock to stand across a place where the railway crosses a public road on the level; or (b) keeps a level crossing closed against the public, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees. View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Railways Act, 1989 Section 7

Title : Powers of Commissioner

State : Central

Year : 1989

Subject to the control of the Central Government, the Commissioner, whenever it is necessary so to do for any of the purposes of this Act, may-- (a) enter upon and inspect any railway or any rolling stock used thereon; (b) by order in writing addressed to a railway administration, require the attendance before him of any railway servant and to require answers or returns to such inquiries as he thinks fit to make from such railway servant or from the railway administration; and (c) require the production of any book, document or material object belonging to or in the possession or control of any railway administration which appears to him to be necessary to inspect. View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Railways Act, 1989 Section 16

Title : Accommodation Works

State : Central

Year : 1989

(1) A railway administration shall make and maintain the following works for the accommodation of the owners and occupiers of lands adjoining the railway, namely:-- (a) such crossings, bridges, culverts and passages over, under or by the sides of, or leading to or from, the railway as may, in the opinion of the State Government, be necessary for the purpose of making good any interruptions caused by the railway to the use of the lands through which the railway is made; and (b) all necessary bridges, tunnels, culverts, drains, water sources or other passages, over, under or by the sides of the railway, of such dimensions as will, in the opinion of the State Government, be sufficient at all times to convey water as freely from or to the lands lying near or affected by the railway as..... View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section

Railways Act, 1989 Section 126

Title : Interim Relief by Railway Administration

State : Central

Year : 1989

(1) Where a person who has made an application for compensation under section 125 desires to be paid interim relief, he may apply to the railway administration for payment of interim relief along with a copy of the application made under that section. (2) Where, on the receipt of an application made under sub-section (1) and after making such inquiry as it may deem fit, the railway administration is satisfied that circumstances exist which require relief to be afforded to the applicant immediately, it may, pending determination by the Claims Tribunal of the actual amount of compensation payable under section 1241[or section 124A] pay to any person who has sustained the injury or suffered any loss, or where death has resulted from the accident, to any dependant of the deceased, such..... View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section


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