ENACTMENT No. 11 Of 1988 CONTROL AND RESTRICTION OF THE PROPOGATION OF NON-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS ENACTMENT 1988
PART II - OFFENCES
Section 7. Offence of sending or delivering publications concerning any non-Islamic religion to a muslim.
(1) A person commits an offence if he, from within the State, sends or delivers or causes to be sent or delivered to another person who is a Muslim within or outside the State, any publication concerning any non-Islamic religion or any publicity material relating to such a publication, which has not been requested for by that other person himself.
(2) Any person who commits an offence under subsection (1) shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, and for a second or subsequent offence, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding four years.
(3) For the purposes of sub-section (1), a publication or publicity material sent or delivered to or at the address of a person shall be held to be sent or delivered to that person.
(4) If shall be a defence to a charge under sub-section (1) that the accused had reason to believe, and did believe, that the person to whom the publication or publicity material in question was sent or delivered was not a Muslim.
(5) It shall not be a defence to a charge under sub-section (1) that the person to whom the publication or publicity material in question was sent or delivered had made a request for it if the request had been prompted by the accused or by any person acting for the accused.
(6) Sub-section (1) does not apply-
(a) to an act that would constitute an offfence under section 8 (1); or
(b) to be delivery of any publication of publicity material by the Postal Department.