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Any police officer who, on any pretext, or under any circumstance, directly or indirectly, collects or receives any fee, gratuity, diet-money, allowance or recompense, other than he may be duly authorised to collect or receive, shall on conviction be liable, to fine not exceeding six months' pay, or to imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months' or to both.