Section 32

Any person who imports, makes, prints, publishes, sells, offers for sale, issues, distributes, circulates or reproduces any subversive article is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years:

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Provided that no person shall be convicted of an offence against this section if he proves to the satisfaction of the court that the article in respect of which he is charged was imported, made, printed, published, sold, offered for sale, issued, distributed, circulated or reproduced, as the case may be, without his authority, consent and knowledge, and without any want of due care or caution on his part, and that he did not know and had no reason to suspect the nature of the article.