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(1) If a person travels in a motor vehicle comprised in road transport service carried by the State Transport Undertaking without} having'a proper ticket with him or having alighted from~ the motor vehicle, fails or refuses to present for examination his ticket imme'-" diately on requisition being made therefor under Section 5, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one ,month or with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees or with both and shall also be liable to pay the excess charge hereinafter in this section mentioned in addition to the ordinary single fare for the distance which he has travelled, or Where there is any doubt as to the stage from which he started, the fare from the stage from which the motor vehicle originally started or the place where the tickets were last examined. ' .(2) The excess charges referred to in sub-section (1) shall be a sum equivalent to the ordinary single fare referred to in that sub-section or five rupees whichever is greater. a O 3: ‘