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Section 251
No criminal use of property:

(1) No one shall make or cause criminal use of property.
(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), a person shall be deemed to have made a criminal use of property if he does the following:-
(a) If someone else's property is seized and used with the intention of dishonesty, harm, loss or embezzlement is done, or if it is rented out or sold without the consent of the person concerned, but the real boundary of a land is used in such a way as to violate the boundary of the land by mistake, it shall not be considered an offense under this section.
(b) If the person who inherits the property, knowing the owner of such property or knowing the owner of such property, without returning such property to such owner within a reasonable time or without giving notice to return the property or without waiting for the owner of such property for a reasonable period, dishonestly uses such property for his own benefit or any However, if the owner of the property is not found despite reasonable efforts or if the owner of the property does not come to take back the property within the reasonable period of notice, the person receiving the property shall not be deemed to have committed an offense under this section if the property is used for his own purpose.
(3) A person who commits or causes an offense under sub-section (1) shall be punished as follows:-
(a) If a person makes criminal use of the property in his possession at the time of his death without being entitled to his rights under the law, or if he makes criminal use of the property of a child, a person who is unaccompanied due to mental or physical illness, or a person above seventy-five years of age, imprisonment for a term up to three years or a fine of up to thirty thousand rupees, or both. Punishment,
(b) In case of criminal use of the property in cases other than those mentioned in clause (a), imprisonment up to one year and fine up to twenty thousand rupees or both.
(4) If the property used criminally according to this section is in a condition where it can be returned, the person who used it in such a way shall return it to the owner of such property or, if he has died, to his next of kin.