law: Official Secrets Act, 1923 
  5. Wrongful communication, etc., of
  
  information 
  (1) If any person having in his possession or
  
  control any secret official code or pass word or any sketch, plan, model,
  
  article, note, document or information which relates to or is used in a
  
  prohibited place or relates to anything in such a place, 13[or which is likely
  
  to assist, directly or indirectly, an enemy or which relates to a matter the
  
  disclosure of which is likely to affect the sovereignty and integrity of India,
  
  the security of the State or friendly relations with foreign States or which
  
  has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act,] or which has been
  
  entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Government,
  
  or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as
  
  a person who holds or has held office under Government, or as person who holds
  
  or has held a contract made on behalf of Government, or as a person who is or
  
  has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract-
  (a) willfully
  
  communicates the code or pass word, sketch, plan, model, article, note,
  
  document or information to any person other than a person to whom he is
  
  authorized to communicate it or a Court of Justice or a person to whom it is,
  
  in the interests of the State, his duty to communicate it; or
  (b) uses, the
  
  information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any
  
  other manner prejudicial to the safety of the State; or
  (c) retains the
  
  sketch, plan, model, article, note or document in his possession or control
  
  when he has no  right to retain it, or when it is contrary to his duty to
  
  retain it, or willfully fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful
  
  authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof ; or
  (d) fails to take
  
  reasonable care of, or so conducts himself as to endanger the safety of, the
  
  sketch, plan, model, article, note, document, secret official code or pass word
  
  or information;
  he shall be guilty of an offence under this
  
  section.
  (2) If any person voluntarily receives any
  
  secret official code or pass world or any sketch, plan. model, article, note,
  
  document or information knowing or having reasonable ground to believe, at the
  
  time when he receives it, that the code, pass word, sketch, plan, model,
  
  article, note, document or information is communicated in contravention of this
  
  Act, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section.
  (3) If any person having in his possession or
  
  control any sketch, plan, model, article, note, document or information, which
  
  relates to munitions of war communicates it, directly or indirectly, to any
  
  foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of
  
  the State, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section.
  14[(4) A person guilty of an offence under
  
  this section shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend
  
  to three years, or with fine, or with both.]