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If any person fraudulently retains, or wilfully secretes or keeps, or detains, or, when required by an officer of the Post Office, neglects or refuses to deliver up—
(a)any postal packet which is in course of transmission by post and which ought to have been delivered to any other person; or
(b)any postal packet in course of transmission by post or any mail bag which shall have been found by him or by any other person,
he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and be liable on conviction on indictment to a fine and to imprisonment with or without hard labour.
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