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Offences Affecting Public Health, Safety and Convenience
Exhibiting a false light/mark/buoy, intending or knowing likely to mislead a navigator, is punished with up to 7 years' imprisonment plus a mandatory minimum ₹10,000 fine.
This severely punishes deliberately deceiving navigators with fake navigational aids, given the serious risk of shipwreck or collision this creates.
Setting up a fake navigational light or buoy specifically to mislead ships, potentially causing a wreck, carries this section's severe penalty given the danger to life involved.