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Penal Code · 2021 Revised Edition · Chapter XVII
Penal Code · 2021 Revised Edition · Chapter XVII
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Where in any proceeding it is proved for any offence prescribed in sections 405, 406. 407, 408 and 409 that any person entrusted with property or with dominion over property had -
misappropriated that property;
used or disposed of that property in violation of any direction of law prescribing the mode in which such trust is to be discharged or of any legal contract. express or implied. which he had made touching the discharge of such trust; or
suffered any person to do any of the acts described in paragraph (a) or (b), it shall be presumed that he had acted dishonestly until the contrary is proved.
The presumption under subsection (1) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the offences prescribed in sections 109 and 5 11 in relation to any of the offences referred to in those sections.
Receiving of stolen property
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