law: Indian Telegraph Act, 1885
  20. Establishing, maintaining or working
  
  unauthorized telegraph
  
  (1) If any person establishes, maintains or works a telegraph
  
  within 1[India] in contravention of the provisions of section 4 or
  
  otherwise than as permitted by rules made under that section, he shall be
  
  punished, if the telegraph is a wireless telegraph, with imprisonment which may
  
  extend to three years, or with fine, or with both, and, in any other case, with
  
  a fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.
  (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal
  
  Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), offences under this section in respect of a
  
  wireless telegraph shall, for the purposes of the said Code, be bailable and
  
  non-cognizable.
  (3) When any person is convicted of an offence punishable under
  
  this section, the court before which he is convicted may direct that the
  
  telegraph in respect of which the offence has been committed, or any part of
  
  such telegraph, be forfeited to government.]