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Certain Acts of pawner to be punishable: (1) Any person who- (a) offers by way of pawn to a pawnbroker any article of which he is unable, or refuses, to give a satisfactory account of the means by which he came into possession of the article; or (b) willfully or knowingly gives false information to apawnbroker as to the ownership of the article to be pawned or as to the genuineness thereof or as to his name and address or as to the name and address of the owner of the article; or (c) not being entitles to redeem a pledge, attempts or endeavours to redeem the same; shall be punishable with imprisonment ffor a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to two thousand five hundred rupees or with both. In every case falling under sub-section (10 and in any case, where, on an article being offered in pawn, for sale, or otherwise, to pawnbroker, the pawnbroker reasonably suspects that it has been stolen or otherwise illegally or clandestinely obtained, he shall in the absence of reasonable excuse, in inquire into the name and address of the person concerned and seize and detain the article and forthwith communicate to the nearest police station the facts of the case and shall deliver the article seized to the police. (3) A list of stolen properties may be made over by the police to any pawnbroker licensed under this Act and thereupon it shall be the duty of such pawnbroker- (a) if any article answering the description of any of the properties set forth in any such list is offered to him in pawn, for sale or otherwise, proceed in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2); and (b) if any such article is already in his possession, to communicate to the nearest police station forthwith the facts of the case (including full particulars as to the name and address of the person who delivered the articles to the pawnbroker) and, if so required by the police, to deliver the articles to them.