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of the circumstances, to a Magistrate competent to take cognizance of the 
alleged offence upon information so received. 
21. (1) Where any person is found carrying arms or other instruments 
in such circumstances as to afford reasonable ground or the 
. Power of seizure suspicion that he is carrying the same with intent to use them, 
able suspicion, or that they may be used in contravention of any of the pro¬ 
visions of this Act, S. 12, (Of. Indian Arms) or any rule made 
or notification or license issued thereunder, any Magistrate, or Police-officer or, 
within a forest, any Forest-officer, or any other person authorized in this behalf 
by the Local Government may seize the arms or instrument, and shall send 
them without unnecessary delay to the Collector. 
(2) The Collector to whom any arms or other instruments are sent under 
sub-section (I) shall summon the owner if known ; and, if the owner appears 
and claims them at any time within one year from the date on which they were 
received in the office of the Collector, the Collector shall hear him, and may, if 
satisfied, after such enquiry as he thinks fit, that there was any such intention 
as aforesaid, cancel the license (if any) of the owner. 
(3) Any arms of other instruments sent to the Collector under sub¬ 
section ( 1 ) shall, if the owner does not appear and claim them within the 
period fixed by sub-section (2), or if their possession without a license was 
