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Chapter VI
OFFENCES, PENALTY AND PROCEDURE
80. A person is guilty of an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 1[three years and shall not be less than six months, and also with fine ], if he, on the polling day,-
(1) uses, in such manner as to be audible within the polling station, any gramophone, megaphone, loudspeaker or other apparatus for reproducing or amplifying sounds;
(2) persistently shouts in such manner as to be audible within the polling station;
(3) does any act which-
(a) disturbs or causes annoyance to any elector visiting a polling station for the purpose of voting; or
(b) interferes with the performance of the duty of a Presiding Officer, Assistant Presiding Officer, Polling any duty at a polling station; or
(4) abets the doing of any of the aforesaid acts.