Section 27: Stealing
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27. Stealing
Any person who—
(a) steals, embezzles, secretes, or destroys a mail bag or a postal
packet in the course of post;
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(b) steals, embezzles, secretes any postal packet from a mail bag, or
from an officer or agent of a licensee, a mail, a posting box or a
letter box;
(c) steals, embezzles, secretes or destroys any article, money or
valuable security contained in a postal packet in the course of
post;
(d) stops a mail with intent to rob or search it; or
(e) unlawfully takes away or opens a mail bag or postal packet sent
by any vessel or aircraft under contract or employed by the
postal service for the conveyance of mail bag or postal packet,
shall commit an offence.