(1) If any person enters upon or into any part of a passenger area, without lawful authority and refuses to leave he shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred rupees:
Provided if the person lawfully entered upon the passenger area, misuses the passenger area and refuses to leave he shall be punishable as per sub-section (3).
(2) If such person refuses to pay the penalty, he shall be produced before the competent court having jurisdiction, and shall on conviction be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend up to three months or with fine which may extend up to five 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 imprisonment for one month or a fine of two thousand rupees.
(3) If any person enters upon or into any part of a railway, other than passenger area, without lawful authority or having lawfully entered upon or into such part misuses such property and refuses to leave, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five 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 two thousand rupees.
(4) Any person referred to in sub-section (1), sub-section (2) and sub-section (3) may be removed from the railway by any railway servant or by any other person whom such railway servant may call to his aid.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section,—
(a) “passenger area” shall have the same meaning as defined in clause (cb) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Railway Protection Force Act, 1957 (23 of 1957);
(b) “railway” shall have the same meaning as defined in clause (31) of section 2 of this Act.]