law: Indian Telegraph Act, 1885
  27. Telegraph officer fraudulently sending messages
  
  without payment
  If any telegraph officer transmits by telegraph any message on
  
  which the charge prescribed by the 16[Central Government], or by a
  
  person licensed under this Act, as the case may be, has not been paid, intending
  
  thereby to defraud the 20[Central Government] or that person, he
  
  shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years,
  
  or with fine, or with both.