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Magistrate may detain property and issue proclamation:- (l) The Magistrate of the district may detain the property and issue a proclamation, specifying the articles of which it consists, and requiring any person who has any claim thereto, to appear and establish his right to the same, within six months from the date of such proclamation. 1[(2) The provisions of section 525 of the2 Code of Criminal Procedure, 1882 (10 of 1882) shall be applicable to property referred to in this section]. COMMENTS The Magistrate of the district has to detain all unclaimed property and issue a proclamation in accordance with the provisions of this section. 3[27. Confiscation of property if no claimant appears:-(1) If no person shall, within the period allowed, claim such property, or the proceeds thereof, if sold, it may, if not already sold under sub-section (2) of the last preceding section, be sold under the orders of the Magistrate of the district. (2) The sale-proceeds of property sold under the preceding sub-section and the proceeds of property sold under section 26 to which no claim has been established shall be 4[at the disposal of the State Government]. COMMENTS The Magistrate of the district will be competent to order the sale of the property, if no claimant appears within the time specified in the proclamation, issued under section 26. 1 Ins. by Act No.8 of 1895, sec. 7. 2 See now the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Act 2 of 1974), sec. 459. 3 Subs. by Act No.8 of 1895, sec. 8, for the original section. 4 Subs. By the A.O. 1937,for “at the disposal of Government.” 12 The Police Act, 1861