law: Railways Act, 1989
  144. Prohibition on hawking, etc., and begging. 
  (1) If any person canvasses for any custom or hawks or exposes
  
  for sale any article whatsoever in any railway carriage or upon any part of a
  
  railway, except under and in accordance with the terms and conditions of a
  
  license granted by the railway administration in this behalf, he shall be
  
  punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with
  
  fine which may extend to two 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 one thousand rupees.
  (2) If any person begs in any railway carriage or upon a railway
  
  station, he shall be liable for punishment as provided under sub-section (1).
  (3) Any person referred to in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2)
  
  may be removed from the railway carriage or any part of the railway or railway
  
  station, as the case may be, by any railway servant authorized in this behalf
  
  or by any other person whom such railway servant may call to his aid.