Emergency Provisions Act, Section 6 (1947)

Section 6

Whoever does any act with the intention of deteriorating, obstructing, or destroying the purpose and ability of:

1. a building, vehicle, machinery, equipment, or other property used or intended to be used for Government purpose;
2. a road, bridge, drainage-crossing, embankment, port or dockyard;
3. a building, an object, a sanitary installation, a mine, or a factory used with respect to the manufacture, distribution or supply of essential goods;
4. a restricted area or a protected area;
5. a water-supply work, pipe connections, machine, apparatus, or other objects related to water-supply

shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not more than 7 years, or fined, or with both.

Section 6A   

(1) Whoever with the intention of causing extreme suffering to the public or loss of lives or of endangering the lives or security of the public, or knowing that extreme suffering will befall the public or lives will be lost or that the lives or security of the public will be endangered, destroys or causes to destroy:

1. a public train, a motor vehicle, a vessel, an aircraft or other vehicle;
2. a public road, a railway-line, a railway-bridge or other bridge;
3. a public reservoir, a water-supply work and a pipe connected thereto;
4. a public dam;

shall be punished with death.

(2) Whoever with the intention of causing extreme suffering to the public or loss of lives or of endangering the lives or the safety of the public, or knowing that extreme suffering will befall the public or lives will be lost or that the lives or security of the public will be endangered, uses a mine or dynamite in any manner to destroy any object mentioned in sub-section (1), shall be punished with death.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) and (2), any person who commits any offence mentioned in sub-section (1) or (2) under coercion and intimidation shall be punished with imprisonment of any type for a term which may extend to 7 years.