Gujarat Police Act, 1951
Whoever, being a pawn-broker, dealer in second-hand property, or worker in metals, or reasonably believed by the Commissioner, or District Superintendent in the areas under their respective charges to be such a person, and having received from a police officer written or printed in information that the possession of any property suspected to have been transferred by any offence mentioned in section 410 of the Indian Penal Code, or by any offence punishable under section 417, 418, 419 or 420 of the said Code is found in possession or there after comes into the possession, or has an offer either by way of sale, pawn exchange, or for custody alteration otherwise howsoever, made to him of property answering the description contained in such information, shall unless (i) he forth with gives information to the Commissioner, or the District Superintendent as the case may be, or at a Police station of such possession or offer and takes all reasonable means to ascertain and to give information as aforesaid of name and address of the person from whom the possession or offer was received, or (ii) the property being, as an article of common wearing appeal or otherwise, in capable of identification from the written or printed information given, has been in no way concealed after the receipt of such information, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees in respect of each such article property so in his possession or offered to him.