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Offences relating to pawning and redeeming.
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23.—Any person who—
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(a) offers to a pawnbroker any article by way of pawn being unable or refusing to give a satisfactory account of the means by which he came into possession of the article;
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(b) wilfully gives false information to a pawnbroker about the ownership of an article offered by him to the pawnbroker by way of pawn or about his name or address or the name or address of the owner of the article; or
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(c) redeems or attempts to redeem or procures another person to redeem or attempt to redeem a pledge without being entitled to do so,
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shall be guilty of an offence.
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